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« A doctor's thoughts on Hillary's behavior | Main | I'm sure this is oversight, not cover-up »

Very strange....

Posted by David Hardy · 14 September 2016 08:41 PM

It's reported that the fellow who tried to grab a gun from a policeman so he could shoot Donald Trump has plead guilty to being a prohibited person (illegal alien) and will likely get two years' imprisonment.

Either the report is off or he got an incredibly easy break. Calculating from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the lowest result would be base level 14 (possession by prohibited person), plus four levels for intent to use it in a felony, plus two for it being stolen equals level 20, sentencing range 33-41 months. On the other hand, they could charge attempted murder of a federally-protected candidate, and that starts off at level 33. homicide (135-168 months, or 11-15 years).

7 Comments | Leave a comment

TJM | September 14, 2016 9:23 PM | Reply

Probably why he struck a plea deal.

Dave D. | September 15, 2016 9:37 AM | Reply

...But the question is " Why did the U.S. Atty give him such a deal ? Musta been Mr. Comedy who made the decision. He disregards evidence and bases his judgement on sympathy, not the law.

Scott Connors | September 15, 2016 11:27 AM | Reply

I suspect that Loretta Lynch probably wanted to give him a Medal of Freedom and two weeks at the Camp David guest house (when Obama was elsewhere), but that with the polls running so tight didn't think she could make that fly.

FWB | September 15, 2016 3:53 PM | Reply

Question is "Where does the federal government get the constitutional police power to legislate any of these punishments?" The Constitution specifically grants punishment power for counterfeiting, securing copyrights and patents, piracies and felonies ON THE HIGH SEAS, offenses against the law of nations, and treason but no grants of police power are made for anything else. The police power was retained by the States except for those few delegated through the Constitution. If there are implied or inherent police powers, that is unwritten, why did the Framers see the need to write down the few that they did? If some other clause grants blanket police powers to the fed, then the explicit grants were unnecessary and the Framers must not have understood the Constitution and its clauses.

Sendarius | September 17, 2016 12:51 AM | Reply

It appears that your analysis starts at "(illegal) possession of a firearm".

My reading of it is the he TRIED to grab a police officer's gun, thus actual possession never occurred.

Roger | September 19, 2016 6:53 AM | Reply

I'm surprised that he wasn't awarded a Freedom medal for the intended assault on the Donald.

Dave D. replied to comment from Sendarius | September 19, 2016 12:38 PM | Reply

....The news article I read stated that the suspect admitted grabbing the pistol handle. If so it was truly possession

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