Will Carless April 8, 2024
In his sentencing memo Thursday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney made it clear why he was letting Tyler Laube off lightly.
It wasn’t just because of what Laube did or didn’t do – the defendant had already confessed to beating a journalist at a 2017 Southern California rally and pleaded guilty to violating riot laws as part of a white-supremacist gang.
Laube deserved a light sentence, Carney said, because prosecutors should have focused on leftist groups.
In a 22-page memo, Carney repeatedly said prosecutors have “ignored” violence committed by Antifa and instead focused on targeting people like Laube — Trump supporters and members of the far-right.
“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 wrote. The sentence: time served, 35 days, rather than the six months prosecutors had sought.
The same day Laube received his light sentence at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, the largest-ever prosecution of members of Antifa in American history was going to trial just 89 miles away. .......................................
Read more: Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating
1.; i'm on usmb and i did not know that antifa is on trial in california or anywhere else? you guys will have to do better than that.
before i navigate to that trial just one little thing.
when did everybody else is doing it" become a mitigation factor in a criminal trial. if "slap on the wrist" justice is being served on these proud boys and such, does that become the usual sentence for violent imsurrewction?
In his sentencing memo Thursday, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney made it clear why he was letting Tyler Laube off lightly.
It wasn’t just because of what Laube did or didn’t do – the defendant had already confessed to beating a journalist at a 2017 Southern California rally and pleaded guilty to violating riot laws as part of a white-supremacist gang.
Laube deserved a light sentence, Carney said, because prosecutors should have focused on leftist groups.
In a 22-page memo, Carney repeatedly said prosecutors have “ignored” violence committed by Antifa and instead focused on targeting people like Laube — Trump supporters and members of the far-right.
“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 wrote. The sentence: time served, 35 days, rather than the six months prosecutors had sought.
The same day Laube received his light sentence at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, the largest-ever prosecution of members of Antifa in American history was going to trial just 89 miles away. .......................................
Read more: Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating
1.; i'm on usmb and i did not know that antifa is on trial in california or anywhere else? you guys will have to do better than that.
before i navigate to that trial just one little thing.
when did everybody else is doing it" become a mitigation factor in a criminal trial. if "slap on the wrist" justice is being served on these proud boys and such, does that become the usual sentence for violent imsurrewction?
