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The Worst J6 Sentencing Yet? – HotAir

For the past several years, we’ve been trying to keep tabs on the trials of the various participants in the January 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riots and the treatment the various defendants have received in court. There have been a number of different charges brought based on the level of participation of those involved, but the results have almost all shared one thing in common. The sentences have been disproportionately excessive for all of them, particularly those who wound up doing little more than trespassing as they wandered around the halls after the building was initially breached. But the sentence that was handed down yesterday to David Nicholas Dempsey of Van Nuys California may be among the most disproportionate we’ve seen to date. Granted, Dempsey was not one of the meandering trespassers I mentioned and he definitely took actions worthy of punishment. But the judge gave him…

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