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Sounds an awful lot like the trials after hitlers failed coup attempt, after all, the nazis were "guided in their actions by a purely patriotic spirit and the noblest of selfless intentions"
“Sentencing Mr. Laube to additional incarceration would only increase the disparity between his punishment and the lack of punishment (and prosecution) members of far-left groups who have committed the same violent conduct received,” Carney [the judge!] wrote. The sentence: time served, 35 days, rather than the six months prosecutors had sought.
For punching a journalist on camera, having gone to the protest with the intention to commit violence as part of a right wing fight club.
Sounds like clear grounds for an appeal. I wish that kind of absolute bias would be grounds for removal.
Can you appeal a criminal being let go?
A not-guilty verdict can't be appealed, but the length of the sentence resulting from a guilty verdict can be appealed, at least in certain situations.
Yeah, easy-peasy appeal material. The First Amendment absolutely bans modifying someone's sentence based on whether they're left or right wing. This judge just flat-out confessed to violating the Constitution.
American jurisprudence is a joke.
This particular judge is a joke. The American legal system is flawed in many ways, but you also have to recognise that no system as large as that can be internally consistent all the time. There are tens of thousands of judges in the US, so it's expected that every so often you will see a particularly unfair or strange ruling.
I get what you’re saying, but there needs to strong and effective remedies for situations like this.
This judge needs to be removed and barred from any public office or service, and every ruling they ever made carefully re-evaluated.
I agree. These rulings seem politically motivated and, as the experts in the article said, reflect shocking ignorance of the situation. Unfortunately, unlike most state judiciaries, there is no body set up to scrutinise federal judges. The only recourse is political, through impeachment.
There are tens of thousands of judges in the US, so it's expected that every so often you will see a particularly unfair or strange ruling.
Except it's proven particular groups are more likely to receive harsher sentences than others (brown men). It a corrupt hypocritical system that was intentionally made to give justice to some and not others. It was designed to be unfair
I quite literally said—
The American legal system is flawed in many ways...
This outcome is not a product of the systematic problems you describe. The average January 6 defendant received sentences of several months to several years imprisonment. This case (and I'm only talking about this case) is a statistical outlier.
I swear, whenever I try to make a nuanced point the people on this site can be dense as fuck and it goes right over their heads and they think that I'm claiming everything's perfect
I mean, increased scrutiny and harsher penalties applied to left-wing radical groups and amnesty for right-wing radical groups has been a pretty consistent problem for decades at minimum. This is a prominent example of a more widespread problem.
I know what you said. My argument is the system isn't flawed. It's working as it is intended.
This outcome is not a product of the systematic problems you describe.
The entire system uses prejudice to sentence those it considers outliers harsher than others. Whether it be race, gender, political ideology, etc. As well as DA's being more concerned with getting a conviction no matter the cost instead of actual justice.
This case (and I'm only talking about this case) is a statistical outlier
Yet even you bring up the fact that the VAST majority of Jan 6 defendant receive less time (especially compared to BLM protestors) yet somehow this case is seperate from the issues that plague our justice system? Couldn't have anything to do with their races and political affiliation right?