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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Democracy aka deep state civil servant entitlements
The ones who did the “storming”, the false flaggers, have not come up for trial yet? Or were they quietly escorted out the jailhouse back door and set free?
The same ones who wail loudest about abortion "rights" but are least likely to ever need one!
She's just parroting Biden, Democrat operatives at all levels and most of the media.
“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."
Even here on FR there are serfs who believe that this is all going to go away...
Sure... All we need to do is get lots of GOPers elected...
Then we can be entertained by their plans, commissions, studies, doublespeak, and hand-waving...
The GOP has done (and will do) nothing significant to restore our former freedoms and liberties...
The communists who currently are our masters are about to add 15-20 million new MIVs to the future voting rolls...
This is in addition to the 45-to-50 million MIVs already inside our country...
Whatever the 2022 election outcome, the communists are playing the long-game and preparing for 2024...
Beyond 2024, all presidential elections will be like the Soviet elections of the 30s, 40s, 50s, & 60s... the leader gets 95% of the vote...
I know!... I know!... It cannot happen here... Snicker...
She done been hit by one big mother ugly stick!
She done been hit by a bigger ugly stick.
Judges need to be escourted out
Judge, if there had been an “insurrection” there wouldn’t still be thugs like you around.
Back atcha Judge!
They woulda threw me right back in the hole after I flipped off the judge.
Good friggen grief!
Now, if you look up Dickinson Debevoise, he appears to be just another bland federal judge, now deceased.
He's actually a Hero of the Democrat Party, similar to one of the Commie Heroes of the old Soviet Union.
It was he that instituted the national Consent Decree of 1982 that allowed the Democrats to commit vote fraud until Debevoise kicked the bucket in 2015 at the age of 91.
He was retired - but came in every year to renew the Consent Decree, till he croaked.
The Democrats finally let it expire in 2018.
This stooge Beryl Howell is just as much an anti-American Commie as her mentor was.
Why not torture him to death.
Such a horrid horrid thing walking into a gov’t building. Gives me the creeps.
JUST ENOUGH TO SCREW THEIR GUN RIGHTS.
I believe the Jan 6 event was a response to violence perpetrated by the left. They struck first.
"THERE ARE...4..LIGHTS!!!!"
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