[semimojo]

I read it as making it necessary to renege on the plea deal to get the decision the feds wanted the entire time.

That's really the point. Our legislators and one of our Presidents, in their wisdom, enacted a law that prohibits plea bargaining punishment below a minimum level.

Many of us have problems with minimum sentencing laws but it's really missing the point to blame a prosecutor or the courts for upholding the law. Blame your Congress.

I have to believe a lot of FReepers might have a different take if this was a bunch of BLMers who took over some federal facility to protest mandatory minimum sentences for dealing crack.

[combat_boots]

Actually, I think the Hammonds should not have been charged at all.

[Hugh the Scot]

I’d say you have a pretty low opinion of your fellow FReepers. The case was adjudicated, the sentence handed down was served. This is tyranny, nothing less, and the weasely “it’s the law” argument is disgusting.

Abortion “is the law”. Gay marriage “is the law”. Slavery was.

[Vehmgericht]

Semimojo
How many rioters from Ferguson have been sent to jail?