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A federal judge sentenced Nicholas Roske, who now goes by Sophie, to eight years in prison on Friday for attempting to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the weeks leading up to the Supreme Court's landmark Dobbs decision.
The sentence is far lower than what the Department of Justice had sought. Prosecutors said Roske should face at least 30 years, while Roske's defense team had asked for eight.
Judge Deborah Boardman said during the sentencing hearing that while Roske's actions were "reprehensible," the judge also considered a string of mitigating factors, including that Roske "spontaneously confessed to and cooperated with police."
"I believe Ms. Roske understands that what she did was terribly wrong. I find her remorse sincere," Boardman said.
DOJ prosecutor Coreen Mao said the sentence "must send the very strong, very clear message that the ends never justify violent means."
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Boardman, a Biden appointee, said she factored into the sentence her concern about Trump's executive order requiring transgender inmates to be detained in prisons that correspond to their sex at birth.
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The judge also sentenced Roske to a lifetime of supervised release. The DOJ is able to appeal the sentence because it is well under the sentencing guidelines.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-kavanaughs-attempted-assassin-sentenced-8-years-prison
Of course the little freak only gets 8 years because he wanted to kill a Republican appointed Supreme Court justice. Had he been going after Sotomayor, he would have gotten the max.
And of course the Biden judge is "concerned" that he might have a hard time in prison because the perp conveniently now IDs as trans. No doubt he gave the slap on the wrist for that reason as well.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill