- 12 Jul 2018 08:35
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Trump pardons ranchers in case that inspired 2016 occupation of wildlife refuge in Oregon
Not that Trump didn't have the rancher vote, but he's got them solidly on his side now. I wonder who in the DoJ appealed for the tougher sentence.
Dwight and his son Steven Hammond were convicted of arson and faced a mandatory minimum sentence of five years, mandated by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan said such a lengthy sentence "would not meet any idea I have of justice, proportionality ... it would be a sentence which would shock the conscience to me."
Hogan instead sentenced Dwight Hammond to three months in prison and Steven Hammond to a year and one day. However, in October 2015, a federal appeals court ordered them to be resentenced to the mandatory minimum.
In a statement Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called that decision "unjust."
Not that Trump didn't have the rancher vote, but he's got them solidly on his side now. I wonder who in the DoJ appealed for the tougher sentence.
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