Bicycling enthusiast and First Amendment advocate Lane Myers made a forty-minute-long impassioned plea on Tuesday before he was sentenced to nearly three years in prison following having his probation revoked by Judge D. Douglas Metcalf.
Myers was originally sentenced to three years of probation in the summer of 2025 after taking a plea deal that covered two sets of charges.
The first set of charges was for stalking and harassing the wife of a Tucson area prosecutor who had brought charges against Myers but never went to trial with those charges. The second set of charges was for more of the same sort of offenses that Myers did while out on bond for the first set of charges.
Myers opted out of a lengthy trial, taking a plea deal where he agreed to a felony conviction from each set of charges, with the remaining charges dropped. At the time, he said he agreed that he was guilty of the charges he pled to.
The sometime YouTuber agreed to the terms of his probation and remained mostly silent for 10 months after his sentencing. There were no problems with his probation, and he had no questions about terms and conditions of his probation.
This changed earlier this year after James “James Freeman” Springer was arrested on a multitude of charges last spring. Myers revived his YouTube channel to talk about the Springer case.
That case quickly went dark after Springer was released from jail and Myers turned his attention to his own troubles with the law and his own conviction.
He suddenly had problems with his probation, claiming that the terms and conditions weren’t in black and white. He then filed to have his probation terms and conditions clarified and promptly began to ignore the parts of his probation that he had challenged with the filing.
Myers, while admittedly not using a call to action against his victim, quickly doxxed the workplace of John “Merb34st” Rietveld, a first-year family law practitioner who had previously criticized his legal filings, the judge in the case, his own defense attorney and our own Jim Finch, who owns and operates ReallyCoolNews.
He also began to obsess over JudyYouGotThis, a reporter for ReallyCoolNews who reports on Myers’ court dates. Myers and his associates would eventually concoct a scenario where Judy was solely responsible for Myers’ troubles as she alerted his victim to his new videos.
This, according to Myers, was confirmed when he found his way to the ReallyCoolNews Discord server and took screen shots from the channel devoted to discussing his return. He would later file over one hundred screen shots of evidence of a massive conspiracy against him.
Myers would go on to test the idea of saying the victim’s name on his livestreams, something he was prohibited from doing, but associating the name with figures from the news who had similar names.
He would also directly attack the victim and her husband, claiming that she was a professional victim and began talking about paying her a visit to her work when he was eventually picked up on a probation violation in July.
While he awaited his fate, Myers began to do interviews with various first amendment auditing channels. It was during these interviews that Myers would reveal that he believed his plea deal was unconstitutional and that it would be overturned on appeal, despite giving up the appeals process as part of the terms and conditions of taking the plea deal.
An extended probation revocation process started while Myers remained in jail. Judge D. Douglas Metcalf ruled that Myers had violated his probation multiple times in a September hearing which led to Myers’ sentencing on Tuesday.
According to our reporter, JudyYouGotThis, Myers had no supporters in the courtroom at that hearing. The victim was represented by her husband and various victim advocates.
The hearing started with house keeping as the Judge delt with house keeping issues. A motion by Myers’ attorney, Mark “The Shark” Resnick, to declare Myers’ probation conditions unconstitutional was denied.
Myers’ own motion for clarification of his probation conditions was then tabled and later denied as moot.
The victim spoke and was followed by prosecutor Rachel Stiles. Both women asked for a mix of jailtime and probation for Myers. His victim also recounted the real world impact of Myers’ actions, with significant security concerns changing the very atmosphere and activities at her workplace after Myers’ previous visits and interactions with staff and students.
Resnick would then speak, essentially offering up just enough to attempt set up conditions for an appeal.
Myers then spoke for 40 minutes, taking no responsibility for his actions.
He stood up and pointed to our own JudyYouGotThis and put blame on her for informing the victim of his actions. He asked why Judy was not in jail for disturbing the victim, then claimed that Judy and the victim were best friends.
The sometime social media influencer then blamed his victim for his actions. Repeating his mantra that if the victim didn’t seek out his videos, the videos couldn’t be considered violations. As somehow even if the video contained a violation, it couldn’t be a violation if no one saw it.
Myers then blamed the probation department and the judge for not providing him guard rails. He asked why no one intervened when he was straying off path and took no responsibility for the decisions that led him to the situation he was in.
He also said he wanted to be on a path that he could serve out his time, pay off any fines, and be able to move to Detroit to be with his family in the future.
Judge Metcalf said he had taken everything into consideration and noted Myers’ real world impact and decision to seek out the wife of a prosector in order to directly influence the judicial system in deciding his fate.
He sentenced Myers to 1.75 years in prison for the first batch of offenses, giving Myers 192 days time served. Hen then sentenced Myers to 1.25 years in prison for the second batch of offenses, with no credit for time served as he was a repeat offender.
All in all, Myers, if he is not successful with his appeal, will serve a little over two and a half years in prison and face no probation conditions after serving his time. Metcalf explained that Myers simply wasn’t a good fit for probation and sentencing him to probation would overextend the resources of the state to keep him in check.
He then adjourned the hearing. Myers has twenty days to appeal Metcalf’s decision.
Following the hearing, Zachary “Liberty Troll” Kueker, who has interviewed Myers multiple times since his incarceration, stated that he may be able to interview Myers one last time before Myers is transferred to the prison system.
It is still unclear when that transfer will take place.
The tremendous exposure of Myers’ case did little to nothing to bring attention to his GiveSendGo campaign for his legal defense.
For Tuesday, Roy “Pigs Under Pressure” Tripoloni’s fund for James “James Freeman” Springer won the day with $100.00 in new donations.
Wednesday saw no new donations to any of the campaigns that we follow, despite tremendous promotion of Myers’ GiveSendGo campaign by Andrea “Illuminate the Dark” Dotson during Zachary “Liberty Troll” Kueker’s livestream devoted to Myers’ sentencing hearing.
This is a breaking news story.
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