LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are appealing the 30-day sentence given to the man who tackled U.S. Sen. Rand Paul while the lawmaker was doing yard work at his Kentucky home.
U.S. Special Attorney Bradley Shepard filed the motion to appeal Rene Boucher’s sentence to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Prosecutors sought a 21-month sentence.
Paul, who suffered broken ribs in the attack last November, has said 21 months would have been “the appropriate punishment.”
Boucher pleaded guilty to assaulting a member of Congress and was sentenced last month. Boucher said he was triggered by Paul stacking debris near their property line in Bowling Green and “lost his temper.”
Boucher asked for leniency at his sentencing hearing and said what he did was wrong. Shepard called the attack “vicious and unprovoked.”
I doubt if anyone in America, including the prosecutor, believes the attack was unprovoked. Thirty days seems to be about what anyone similarly situated would receive if they had simply assaulted a non-senator neighbor. The prosecutor is sucking up the the Senator. Unless the district judge wants to suck up too, my guess is the 30 day sentence remains in place.
That’s 30 days more than George Z got for murdering Trayvon Martin. Paul should shut up.
This story would really only be of interest if it were Rand Paul getting a 21-month sentence… The story of a Gooper seeking the harshest punishment possible for anyone who dare oppose them is nothing new. Jesus may have said “Turn the other cheek” but the Goopers never will.
(No, I am not trying to minimize Paul’s injuries, which were, of course senseless and stupid. But, as @thomasmatthew pointed out, in the big picture, there are major inconsistencies in the application of the rules of law – and the well-known usually end up coming out on top.)
That is 1 month for the actual attack and 20 months for not attacking Ted Cruz.
That turn the other cheek thing is one way Jesus revealed himself to be a damned liberal & ergo an enemy of the GOP. So forgiving is pretty much off Paul’s table.