Bruce Doucette

Bruce Doucette is an American sovereign citizen "guru" and self-proclaimed judge who has been convicted of racketeering, conspiracy and other felonies, and sentenced to 38 years imprisonment in 2018.

Life and career Doucette, the owner of a computer repair shop in Littleton, Colorado, became a prominent sovereign citizen activist during the 2010s. Styling himself a "Superior Court Judge of the Continental uNited States of America" (unusual capitalization intended), The "oath" by Doucette and his followers read: "I am the warrior protector for those who know not how to speak of the crimes against them." and threatened to hold "a trial with the redress of grievance" against county and other government officials. His effort to "review evidence that public officials may have committed crimes" was unsuccessful.

Doucette and his followers attempted to intimidate public officials so they would dismiss criminal cases against other sovereign citizens. When these efforts failed, Doucette's group retaliated by engaging in paper terrorism against them a common sovereign citizen harassment tactic, and threatening them with "arrest" by their self-appointed "Marshals". At his sentencing hearing, Doucette said: “I do not consent and never have." The sentencing of Doucette and his associates was the most important crackdown on a sovereign citizen organization since the case of the Montana Freemen in 1996.