Calif. judge gives man light sentence because of 'lack of punishment ... of far left groups.' Yet Antifa members are on trial one county away.

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.

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The federal judge’s strong words – and clear political bent – are as unusual as they are uninformed, legal experts told USA TODAY.

“He’s really gone off the deep end,” said John Donohue, a professor at Stanford Law School.

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
    531·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like clear grounds for an appeal. I wish that kind of absolute bias would be grounds for removal.

    • quindraco@lemm.ee
      341·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    Conservatism is a plague of oppression and death. Being conservative should be a disqualifier for positions of authority.

    Conservative policing and conservative courts are moral justification for extrajudicial justice against conservative offenders.

  • systemglitch@lemmy.worldBanned from community
    234·
    1 year ago

    After all those riots, and speaking as a Canadian, it does seem there is a lobsided focus on right wing nut jobs over left wing nut jobs.

    Surely others see this as well? Not saying this guy’s sentence should be lighter, I don’t care, but there was a lot of forgiveness for what antifa did.

    • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      I don’t see anyone getting the standard punishment for insurrection or treason here so no this does not track.

        • nac82@lemm.eeBanned from community
          81·
          1 year ago

          The cops who were beat to death let them in?

          • John_McMurray@lemmy.world
            19·
            1 year ago

            Are you talking about the one died of a heart attack, or the one who had a stroke? Maybe the ones died of suicide in the year after they tried to blame on that too?

            • nac82@lemm.eeBanned from community
              6·
              1 year ago

              The individuals who passed physical fitness exams annually just so happened to have major cardiac attacks after being BEATEN TO DEATH.

              If it wasn’t them being violently beaten to death, ypu wouldn’t have known the exact individuals being identified.

              And I’m pretty sure you don’t have to be beaten to death to prove you were beaten in a way that proves you didn’t cooperate willingly.

              Nice moving goalposts dipshit. We went from “the cops let them in” to “they only beat the cops to the edge of death and then they died of heart attacks.”

                • nac82@lemm.eeBanned from community
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  Yes. Medical science can bring people back from having their heart stopped.

                  Maybe this is the first time you’ve heard of a defibrillator?

                  But it’s funny that’s the point you want to debate, why are you refusing to talk about your shift from “the cops let them in willingly” to “they only beat the cops to death”?

                • Djtecha@lemm.ee
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  So they beat the cop, and that led to the heart failure. In my world that’s murder. Maybe not on fox news or whatever rag you’re breathing from, but in the real world it’s fucking murder ya clown.

        • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
          82·
          1 year ago

          You are aware that someone was justifiably shot to death for attempting to reach a protected person under siege right?

          There were barricades and evacuations. There were calls for Pence’s head to be removed from his body because he didn’t do his part of the plan to realize the coup, there was planning prior to locate offices of persons of interest and escape routes, there was weapons confiscated before the event.

          You don’t get to claim a protest because a single cop was sympathetic to the cause. But you know that. There is no ambiguity, at this point you are complicit in its white washing