SENTENCE: ISIS recruit Sajmir Alimehmeti given 22 years by #SDNY Judge Engelmayer, who does not allow live tweeting. So this from hallway, story later
Just back to Press Room. Notably, Judge Englemayer told Alimehmeti that he would have gotten three years more if he had gone to trial and been found guilty.
(Judge Rakoff by contrast does not penalize defendant for going to trial, even for perjuring themselves)
(Judge Rakoff by contrast does not penalize defendant for going to trial, even for perjuring themselves)
@JURISTnews @SCOTUSblog Alimehmeti's mother was in the courtroom; she wrote a letter to Judge Engelmayer. His father returned to Albania from The Bronx and passed away. Engelmayer repeated referred to the "pocket chain saw" Alimehmeti was found with. And the gloves with steel knuckles
@JURISTnews @SCOTUSblog Judge Engelmayer showing humility and a sensitivity to technology at odds with his ordering Inner City Press not to live-tweet his sentencing of Mel Murda in the #6ix9ine case, declined to impose a "no Internet" condition for 5 years of Supervised Release
@JURISTnews @SCOTUSblog Judge Engelmayer said technology might well change in the next 22 years -- can you say, Chinese "internet"? -- and so he'll leave the specifics of de-radicalization up to the Department of Probation.
But will that will exist?
But will that will exist?
