Posted on 04/15/2022 1:20:50 PM PDT by RandFan
WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge imposed a prison sentence plus house arrest and probation on a Tennessee man who stormed the Capitol, saying the government wants to keep an eye on people like him as the 2024 presidential election approaches.
U.S. District Chief Judge Beryl Howell spoke at the Thursday hearing about the “conundrum” many sentencing judges are facing as they decide how to sentence a nonviolent Capitol riot defendant like Blake Reed, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering and remaining in a restricted building.
There’s a trade-off in punishment, she said, with jail time on one hand or longer supervision on the other. At the same time, some sentencing judges at the federal courthouse in Washington believe a period of supervision of at least three years is necessary to help prevent another insurrection. Howell toed that line and sentenced Reed to three years of probation, including 42 days of intermittent confinement and three months of home detention.
“It’s to protect our democracy from other people like you … engaging in the same political violence that shook our country,” she told Reed, adding that it is “imperative” that a siege on the Capitol never happens again.
Reed and four others were indicted together two days after the riot. He took a plea deal in November in exchange for the more serious charges against him to be dropped, including obstruction and disorderly conduct. The government sought a sentence of three months in jail and one year of supervised release, while Reed suggested probation.
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What an ass
Blinding LEO’s with lasers was especially despicable.
Likewise judge.
No from you!
Just do your job JudgeIdiot and spare us your Leftist ideological BS you think!?!?!
She looks like a Vindman?
NANZI and the dems had no problem finding partisan fascist judges to preside over their unconstitutional, grossly illegal communist show trials. You can bet your last dollar that not ONE case will be adjudicated before a conservative judge, who would throw a monkey wrench in all this venomous nonsense and throw it out of court!
THIS IS AN IN YOUR FACE AFFRONT TO OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR SOCIETY, AND OUR WAY OF LIFE. MAY THE ALMIGHTY JUDGE THEM ALL SWIFTLY, AND WITH GREAT PREJUDICE...LIKE DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL...YESTERDAY!
He’d Hit it.
I’ll speak for him: She’s ugly.
NO ONE stood up to defend the Constitution from the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
That’s why we lost the Republic.
Why is it that Leftist twits today are dawn to law like
flies to a pile of ——?
That woman isn’t even remotely a valid candidate for
a date.
Appreciating my pets, I wouldn’t even sick one of them
on her.
Politicians and judges should have to pass a basic civics test in order to serve.
“Non violent”, which means he did not riot. He is a political prisoner in every sense.
WOOF!!! UUUGGGGGLY! RADIATES “SMUG”! JUST WHAT YOU’D EXPECT.
FLASHBACK:
Obama-Appointed Judge Sides With House Dems, Granting Access to Secret Grand Jury Info in Mueller Report
October 25, 2019
Federal Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee on Friday sided with House Democrats granting them access to the secret grand jury information and underlying intelligence materials in Robert Mueller’s report.
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How does this Judge legally get away with calling January 6th an insurrection during sentencing, when no one has been charged with insurrection?
Our Founding Fathers tried to war US about people like this “judge”. That is the whole purpose of the Second Amendment.
OMG. Guilty!!!!!
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