A Missouri woman who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced this week to 10 years in prison for driving drunk and killing a passenger in another car, nearly a year after the riot.

The woman, Emily Hernandez, 25, was seen in photos on the day of the riot standing on the Capitol grounds and proudly holding up a piece of a sign from the office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi that had just been smashed by another rioter.

Federal prosecutors said she had joined her uncle and his friend as part of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol and that she had entered Pelosi’s suite and then exited through a broken window.

Hernandez, who lived with her parents in Sullivan, Missouri, and worked on a farm, had “never been political,” her federal public defender, Michelle M. Peterson, wrote in court papers. But she had been “urged on by her uncle and his friend, both of whom were considerably older than her.”

“She acted immaturely and under their influence,” Peterson wrote.

— The New York Times