insulted a prosecutor and verbally attacked the judge who punished him.
Sounds like a certain ex-president who deserves to have his eventual sentence quadrupled.
Those aren’t crimes though. Dude should get a sentence reflecting what he did, not reflecting his right to say political figures (and judges and prosecutors absolutely are) are fuckwits
Contempt of court is a crime. Also I like how you lumped the judicial and executive branches into “political figures” like there isn’t a constitutional difference.
They’re often elected. And it doesn’t seem to mention a contempt of court charge
I think the article makes it seem different than it is.
He was going to get a lighter sentence because he was showing remorse by playing guilty. Then his behavior between the plea and the sentencing showed that he wasn’t actually remorseful, so they go back to what they would have sentenced him.
It’s like if you get offered a discount on a bill if you pay early, then you pay late instead and have to pay the full amount. They aren’t charging you more, they’re just not offering the early discount because you didn’t hold your end of the bargain up.
So, he’s getting the sentence he deserved without credit for showing that he knows what he did was wrong.
Lesson for other defendants: the time to return to being an asshole is after everything has been settled.
He’s still getting less than four months. It should be a lot worse to reflect the severity of what he did.
Article doesn’t really say what he did, but the prosecutors only asked for twenty one days so probably fuck all
