Boutique
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Discrepancies are inevitable in a distributed justice system and, in the grand scheme of things, far preferable to inflexible rule-based sentencing where judges have no ability to take particulars into account.
For every real sentencing, one could look around and find another person who did the same crime and got away with less or even scott free. Literally for any sentencing.
Again I don’t play the game where people use that previous fact as a way to claim political victimhood.
The mother fucker made his bed. He was proud of what he did. Now he can entertain his cell mate in it.
Discrepancies are inevitable in a distributed justice system and, in the grand scheme of things, far preferable to inflexible rule-based sentencing where judges have no ability to take particulars into account.
For every real sentencing, one could look around and find another person who did the same crime and got away with less or even scott free. Literally for any sentencing.
Again I don’t play the game where people use that previous fact as a way to claim political victimhood.
The mother fucker made his bed. He was proud of what he did. Now he can entertain his cell mate in it.
You need to wave our hand imperiously as you say that...
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Pretty sure that's wrong but I'm too lazy to google it
Ms. Rahman and Mr. Mattis pleaded guilty last year to one count of possessing and making an explosive device, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Under the new agreement, Ms. Rahman and Mr. Mattis withdrew the earlier plea and instead pleaded guilty to conspiring to assemble the Molotov cocktail and damage the New York Police Department patrol car.
The conspiracy charge carries a maximum sentence of five years, though prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence of 18 to 24 months imprisonment. The agreement also requires them to pay more than $30,000 restitution to the city of New York.
The Justice Department and U.S. probation officials each indicated that federal-sentencing guidelines could have led to an excessive sentence, particularly if the lawyers’ conduct was considered an act of terrorism, according to a letter last month from prosecutors to the judge.
From what I can find, they're scheduled to be sentenced later this month. Let's see if the judge agrees with the prosecution's recommendations.
Pretty sure that's wrong but I'm too lazy to google it
Ms. Rahman and Mr. Mattis pleaded guilty last year to one count of possessing and making an explosive device, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Under the new agreement, Ms. Rahman and Mr. Mattis withdrew the earlier plea and instead pleaded guilty to conspiring to assemble the Molotov cocktail and damage the New York Police Department patrol car.
The conspiracy charge carries a maximum sentence of five years, though prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence of 18 to 24 months imprisonment. The agreement also requires them to pay more than $30,000 restitution to the city of New York.
The Justice Department and U.S. probation officials each indicated that federal-sentencing guidelines could have led to an excessive sentence, particularly if the lawyers’ conduct was considered an act of terrorism, according to a letter last month from prosecutors to the judge.
From what I can find, they're scheduled to be sentenced later this month. Let's see if the judge agrees with the prosecution's recommendations.
Urooj Rahman, a public interest lawyer who firebombed a police cruiser during the 2020 George Floyd riots, was sentenced to just 15 months in prison on Friday after the Biden Justice Department intervened on her behalf, pressing the court to issue a sentence below the guidelines that called for 10 years.
U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan of the Eastern District of New York handed down the sentence to a packed courtroom in Brooklyn, where Rahman’s allies gathered in solidarity. Rahman, who faced up to five years in prison, told supporters the sentence "wasn’t the result we wanted." Her attorney, Peter Baldwin, said Rahman’s defense team was "obviously disappointed with the result, but we are excited that Urooj can move on to the next phase of her life."
Rahman and her accomplice, Colinford Mattis, leveraged their connections to top universities, white-shoe law firms, and the Obama administration, to win sympathy from liberal elites. They were the subjects of glowing profiles in national media during their prosecution, and struck a sweetheart deal with the Biden Justice Department, which, in a rare move, intervened to ask the court to go easy on them after the Trump administration had pressed for an aggressive prosecution.
The Justice Department declined to comment.
The plea deal paid off for Rahman, who was also sentenced to two years of supervised release. Cogan chastised Rahman for the "amazing level of arrogance" it took for a lawyer to perpetrate an "attack on the rule of law." But the judge also called Rahman "a remarkable person who did a terrible thing one night," echoing the case her lawyers made in her defense.
On May 29, 2020, Rahman, a graduate of Fordham University’s law school, threw a Molotov cocktail into an NYPD vehicle along with Mattis, a Princeton and New York University Law School graduate. The pair pleaded guilty in June, which qualified them for automatic disbarment. New York officially disbarred them on Tuesday.
But prosecutors said Rahman and Mattis explicitly approved of violence. In text messages, the pair "encouraged others to engage in violence; mocked reportedly injured police officers; and disparaged law enforcement generally," prosecutors noted in court documents.
On the night of the protest, Rahman sent Mattis videos of rioters throwing fireworks and Molotov cocktails at law enforcement, damaging another NYPD van. "Bring it to their neck," Mattis responded to the footage.
"[F]ireworks goin and Molotovs rollin," Rahman responded. "I hope they burn everything down. Need to burn all police stations down and probably the courts too." She even "announced with a smiley face emoji that her rock had struck a police officer," prosecutors said.
Sounds like an incitement to me, but I'm no lawyer.
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3 years for stealing a coat rack and a bottle of bourbon
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Been better off if he had killed somebody in NYC.
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3 years for stealing a coat rack and a bottle of bourbon
3 years for stealing a coat rack and a bottle of bourbon
Where did this happen? At the mall of the Americas? At the Sibley’s in Ft Wayne?
And how did he get in? Valet parking followed by a short walk? Or was it wheelchair service?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Where did this happen? At the mall of the Americas? At the Sibley’s in Ft Wayne?
While obstructing an official proceeding - a felony of which he was convicted.
The thefts were misdemeanors.
And how did he get in?
Perhaps the FBI informants at the Proud Boys have an idea. Perhaps some Capitol Police guards opened doors.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Yeah, it's not like he was a lawyer who knew better.
It seems to me that you think I'm justifying these actions.
I'm not.
I'm pointing out that when you look at the crimes of which these idiots were convicted (obstruction of an official proceeding) the sentences are not comparable to those meted out to those who firebombed police cars and (like these guys) encouraged further lawlessness.
The judges who imposed these sentences are, understandably, emotional in doing so. But there's no place for emotion in the law, or at least there shouldn't be.
If there was a more serious crime that these clowns committed, then bring charges, prosecute and convict, if you can.
But they weren't charged with anything like that. AFAIK, the most serious charge is what this guy was convicted is "obstruction..."
As Jolly pointed out, the different way rioters in Portland who tried to burn the federal courthouse have been treated more leniently.
Throw the book at 'em all. Just make sure it's the same book.
Federal prosecutors in Portland, Ore., have moved to dismiss almost half the cases they charged in connection with violence accompanying last year’s protests over racial injustice, as authorities grapple with how to tamp down politically motivated unrest that has arisen since then.
Of 96 cases the U.S. attorney’s office in Portland filed last year charging protesters with federal crimes, including assaulting federal officers, civil disorder, and failing to obey, prosecutors have dropped 47 of them, government documents show. Ten people have pleaded guilty to related charges and two were ordered detained pending trial. None have gone to trial.
The penalties levied so far against any federal defendants, most of whom were arrested in clashes around federal buildings in Portland including the courthouse, have largely consisted of community service, such as working in a food bank or encouraging people to vote.
More than half of the around 30 so-called deferred resolution deals, in which prosecutors ask the court to drop cases once defendants complete volunteer work, were initiated last fall under the Trump administration, interviews and a review of cases shows. Prosecutors have continued to pursue such deals under President Biden.
Senior Trump Justice Department officials had pushed prosecutors to be aggressive in bringing a full slate of federal charges, including possibly sedition and racketeering, The Wall Street Journal previously reported, but no such charges were filed.
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Vengeance is poor Justice.
