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WaPo: D.C. judges express frustration about possible leniency in Capitol riot cases
WaPo ^ | Aug 26 | Rachel Weiner

Posted on 08/27/2021 3:26:34 AM PDT by RandFan

Federal judges in Washington are questioning whether rioters who have admitted to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 in support of President Donald Trump are being treated too leniently.

Judges are asking prosecutors why defendants aren’t paying more to cover the cost of damage to the Capitol, why the court can’t order additional supervision of many defendants beyond a brief prison term and why more do not face heftier charges.

Judges have also pressured defendants to explain why they were in the building that day and express contrition, even if their plea agreements do not require such admissions.

The friction comes from the minor role each individual played in the day’s overall horror.

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What the ... ?

This is some kind of joke?

Locked up for 6+ months without trial is lenient according to these judges?!

Blood boiling...

1 posted on 08/27/2021 3:26:34 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan
These wouldn't be filthy,lousy,stinking Maoist judges appointed by “the usual suspects”,would they?
2 posted on 08/27/2021 3:28:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Judges are just people too stupid to make a living out of being lawyer so they bribed a politician (usually another lawyer) to get an easy life time appointment. Its really too bad that we ,as a country, are totally under their idiotic and irrational control.


3 posted on 08/27/2021 3:29:55 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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rioters who have admitted to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6

How much torture did they endure before making such a statement to the Stalinist show trial?

4 posted on 08/27/2021 3:31:20 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population is taxed w/o representation.)
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To: RandFan

Someone please write up a list of the other times the capital has been bombed or “invaded”. I remember the time it was bombed by the Weather Underground and even though they knew who was involved NO ONE was so much as arrested. I know there were other times too. Anyone have a write up of them?


5 posted on 08/27/2021 3:31:36 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: RandFan

Half the people on our side, even here, will STILL not appreciate how evil the Left is. In this case, has ANY JUDGE ever complained about violent criminals being released early and killing again.

...yet here we are with this article.


6 posted on 08/27/2021 3:32:36 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: RandFan

Also - funny how the word ‘insurrection’ has been quietly removed from the discourse.


7 posted on 08/27/2021 3:33:32 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: RandFan

Every story has the same leftist propagandist talking points!
RIOTS! STORMING! HORROR! “largest investigation in US history” “FELONY CHARGES” ... “that left five people DEAD” “... suicides by multiple police officers.” Never do they mention the black police officer shooting an UNARMED citizen! Never do they mention ANTIFA goons in the “riot”.
That’s how propagandists work though. Tell the lie, rinse and repeat.


8 posted on 08/27/2021 3:35:14 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: RandFan

Same judges no doubt have no problem with an FBI agent forging documents and lying to the FISA court. They’ll welcome that dirt bag into their courts now.


9 posted on 08/27/2021 3:35:23 AM PDT by lodi90
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Ask Ashli Babbitt how she feels.


10 posted on 08/27/2021 3:36:18 AM PDT by navymom1
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It wasn’t a “riot”. It was the definition of a mostly peaceful protest.


11 posted on 08/27/2021 3:37:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: RandFan

they want to do the pre-trial punishments as much as they can because they know the eventual sentences will not be so harsh. What jury is going to throw the book at someone just for being in a building not doing much of anything?


12 posted on 08/27/2021 3:38:26 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: ChronicMA; Amendment10

And I thought a right to a speedy trial was everyone’s right under the constitution


13 posted on 08/27/2021 3:41:20 AM PDT by RandFan
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Every one of these judges needs to. be impeached.


14 posted on 08/27/2021 3:42:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: RandFan

It’s a cute document. We keep it under glass and allow people to visit it. But that may change.


15 posted on 08/27/2021 3:43:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population is taxed w/o representation.)
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To: RandFan

this is an indictment of WaPo and the writer, Rachel Weiner, as much as it is of the cherry-picked “Federal judges”.

everyone locked up right now for Jan 6 nonsense should be immediately released and compensated.


16 posted on 08/27/2021 3:48:39 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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“The day‘a horror”

If that is someone’s idea of horror, they’ve had a blessed life. And they are blaming them for police suicides? I say they killed themselves afterwards because of Ashli Babbitt’s murder. And actually, I doubt that’s true either. They act like these cops committed ritual seppuku out of guilt that the Capitol was breached.
In the real world they didn’t like long forced overtime shifts after the 6th, had divorces after the year of blm and lockdowns, used drugs or alcohol, etc. I seriously doubt it was guilt over a tres incident in the holy capital building.


17 posted on 08/27/2021 3:49:20 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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What happened to the people who stormed and occupied the Capitol of Wisconsin to prevent the Legislature from meeting and conducting business for WEEKS in 2012?
18 posted on 08/27/2021 3:55:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: RandFan

Is this a Babylon Bee article?


19 posted on 08/27/2021 3:57:48 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: ClearCase_guy

You hit the nail on the head....How much were they pressured to admit guilt when there was none????


20 posted on 08/27/2021 3:58:55 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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