[StAnDeliver]

“What you did was terrible,” Lamberth added later, imposing the lower end of the federal guidelines. “You made yourself the epitome of the riot.”

Lamberth never ceases to à muser. First of all, "epitome"? Just, no.

"Embodiment", maybe. "Totem" would have been apropos.

But epitome is always reserved for complimentary speech, and for f's sake, even the sentence (grammar, not prison time) is structured to give the defendant the exact kind of gratification he was seeking in the first place!

[dfwgator]

Lamberth channeling his inner Judge Freisler.