Judge Koeltl is a scholarly and contemplative judge who is among the fairest of the virtually hundreds of U.S. district judges before whom I have appeared for hearings and the many dozens in whose court I've been part of a trial. He know the law and applies it scrupulously and without fear or favor. He is the type of judge every American should be pleased to have serving their courts.
The Judge may know the law, Middie, but he did not scrupulously apply anything except a huge incentive to any future traitors and terrorists.
From the article: "...But in departing from federal guidelines that called for 30 years behind bars, he cited Stewart's more than three decades of dedication to poor, disadvantaged and unpopular clients."Bleeding heart Judge.
From the wording of your post, it is apparent you are a lawyer and have experience with and admiration for this particular judge.
The person she was helping to communicate with other terrorists is a convicted terrorist who plotted the death of Americans. The people he was communicating with (through her) are in a war with our country, and want to kill as many unarmed American civilians as they can, the same type of people, same mindset as those who slaughtered thousands of Americans on 9/11.
I am curious, not trying to be a wiseguy. Why, in your opinion, is this sentence so light? Many of us feel that she has engaged in treason, and while the bar has been set so high as to render that offense un-convictable, many of us feel that she should have spent the rest of her days in prison, or at the very least, got more than a slap on the wrist.
spare us.
this was a setup from the start - the case was shopped to this judge, and he delivered.
Balony! His actions in this case tell where his sympathies lie.
Hint: They are with the security of the United States.
In a just world this bit*C would heve been hung and she should have been. Or if not hung , sentenced to 30 years or moer. My vote goes for more. She has the blood of untold sould upon her hands.
How do you explain this sentence?
For Koeltl to cut her a break because of her service as a defense lawyer is insulting to every family member who lost a loved one on 9/11, and is specious at best. It's another glaring example of the bar looking out for each other. Why the hell would her work as a lawyer be grounds for leniency when it was in her role as lawyer that she committed a serious breach of law by directly engaging in a terrorist act? And if Koeltl thinks her record as a lawyer speaks well of her, that says more about him than it does about Stewart. Stewart is a commie 60's radical herself whose life's work has been to defend a string of violent who's whos who are nothing but a bunch America-hating anarchists, murderers and thugs.
Koeltl will make sure that this woman who should be shot at dawn by a firing squad will never serve a day in prison.