The Capitol rioter pictured putting his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk rejected a plea bargain which would see him spend more than five years behind bars.

Richard Barnett, 61, faces a rally of charges for his part in the January 6, 2021 insurrection, including entering a restricted building with a dangerous weapon.

He is also charged with theft of government property, disorderly conduct and obstruction of an official proceeding. 

An attorney for Barnett told a pretrial hearing that his defendant would not be accepting a plea deal with sentencing guidelines of 70 to 87 months, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

Barnett has pleaded not guilty to the lengthy list of charges.

Prosecutor Mary L. Dohrmann said that under the rejected agreement, Barnett would have pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding, while six other charges would have been dismissed.

More than 730 people have been charged with federal crimes stemming from the riot. More than 210 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors with a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment.

In February, the Seattle man who punched two cops during the Capitol riot was handed a six-month prison term, becoming the 100th person to be sentenced in one of the largest federal investigations in American history.