Judge gives sailor convicted in Jan. 6 chance to save career [Video]

WASHINGTON — A federal judge sentenced an active-duty sailor convicted of participating in the Capitol riot to 30 days of home detention on Friday — a sentence his attorney said could keep him from losing his 17-year career in the U.S. Navy.

Petty Officer First Class David Elizalde, a 46-year-old aviation structural mechanic in the Navy, was convicted in a bench trial last year of one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. The charge is a petty misdemeanor that’s among the least serious used in Jan. 6 cases. It carries a maximum sentence of up to six months in prison, although judges have frequently handed down probationary sentences with no jail time at all for those convicted of it. 

However, Elizalde’s attorney, Stephen F. Brennwald, said any period of …