And just as ugly on the outside as in.
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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A Hussein Obama appointee who needs to one day stand before true judgment....
When the Capitol Police are holding the doors open and motioning people inside, I would hardly call that a “storming” under any circumstance.
This should be in the first paragraph of the defendant's appeal.
It figures! U.S. District Chief Judge Beryl Howell is just another Barack Obama stooge. Strange how only these goofballs make statements like this.
Why are nearly ALL strident leftist women such ass-ugly wenches. There are (very) few exceptions.
And just as ugly on the outside as in.
“Judge tells Capitol rioter supervision is necessary to protect democracy from ‘people like you’”
Hell, judge don’t worry. I’m sure the Department of Justice ... I mean the Department of Injustice will take care of that.
We need your opinion on this.
When reason returns he must receive full pardon and reparations.
Not enough solid information to determine if he should receive some sort of medal.
#10 is bad, but wait until Laz sees #46.
Anger and hate destroys one from within. They are all filled with anger and hate. They are angry with everything and everyone and can’t say why. They hate the World and everything in it including themselves. They live their lives in a hell of their own making. Then die and go there.
“It’s to protect our budding communism from other people like you … engaging in the same political violence that shook our communism,”
Looks like Edward G Robinson.
I think he just threw up.
I suppose you actually think people care enough to revolt.
WOW. Entering a restricted building. My God. We are lucky civilization survived such an assault.
However Americans fighting and dying in Ukraine to protect the source of the politicians dirty money and to protect Fauchi's bio labs, judging by the posts on Free Republic, Americans are ready , willing , and able to see that done.
This Activist judge is everything wrong with our “legal” system.
It is odd that as we age some vision gets cloudy while other becomes clear.
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