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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

That Sessions memo focuses on charging primarily, assuming the harshest charges deliver the harshest sentences. It grants prosecutors discretion adequate to refrain from the Credico threat enhancement. One wonders whether there was any discussion with supervisors about removing that overreaching argument. What I’ve read seems to indicate the prosecutor who signed it was actually browbeaten into keeping maximum enhancements by subordinates who worked for Mueller.

The memo is a perfect alibi here.

But your friend makes a great point, and he undoes my suspicion that the first memo was all the fault of overzealous prosecutors. It’s actually zealous prosecutors enabled by a political hack racist Atty General who is thankfully Gone.

Sessions is Satan’s ass plug in those schematics of Hell I’ve offered in past posts. And Satan eats nothing but bean burritos, ghost pepper frittatas, and black coffee.

That memo is disgusting. I seriously wish the worst of terminal illnesses on Sessions. As I always have.

Hard to square what Roy writes with what you seem to believe:

[F]ollowing what was required of them, Stone’s prosecutors’ memo walks through his numerous crimes; explains what the most substantial guidelines sentence for each would be; notes how comparable defendants have been sentenced (none higher than 35 months) and accurately notes that Stone’s conduct was worse than all of those. But then the memo does an extraordinary thing — it explains to Judge Berman Jackson why seven to nine years is nonetheless likely too high. The memo specifically notes that the enhancement for Stone’s threats to a witness is extreme and the Judge would be acting within her authority not to fully use that enhancement.

In addition, the memo notes that two of the other applicable enhancements could be seen as overlapping and the Judge could decide not to apply both. The career prosecutors clearly indicate to the Judge that going below seven years would be “in accord with the advisory Guidelines.”

These career prosecutors simply did what DOJ’s current rules require them to do....