Judge Tanya Chutkan pointedly rejected her own colleague's comparison between the Jan. 6 mob and the rioters who exploited the Black Lives Matter demonstrations last year.
"Some have compared what took place on Jan. 6 with other protests that took place throughout the country through the past year and have suggested that the Capitol rioters are being treated unfairly," Chutkan said during a sentencing hearing.
"Four of the six cases where judges sentenced January 6 defendants to prison over federal prosecutors' requests for lesser punitive measures happened in Chutkan's courtroom," the report said.
Politifact explained, "In one instance, Chutkan sentenced Matthew Mazzocco, a Texas man who pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol, to 45 days incarceration, 60 hours of community service and $500 restitution."
Chutkan rejected the recommendation from prosecutors who asked that "He be sentenced to 3 months home detention, 36 months probation, 60 hours of community service and $500 restitution."
"If Mr. Mazzocco walks away with probation and a slap on the wrist, that's not going to deter anyone from trying what he did again," Chutkan said at Mazzocco's sentencing hearing.
"Chutkan keeps saying case won't go to trial in 2026 and grasping for reasons why. She continues to hammer Trump's lawyer for not reviewing possible evidence related to an indictment that didn't even exist."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/law_and_order_the_postconstitutional_episode.html
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