This story from the New York Post detailing a case which Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson decided to give a sexual predator a light sentence is disturbing and tragic.
The Biden nominee's handling of sex offender Leo Weekes' case emerged in a tranche of court filings and transcripts sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday — just days before the panel is set to vote on whether to report her nomination to the full Senate...
Yeah, this case is absolutely insane:
In 2010, Weekes was convicted in DC Superior Court of raping his 13-year-old niece four years earlier. He was sentenced to 16 months in jail and four years of supervised probation and was required to register as a sex offender for the next decade, according to records obtained by The Post.
But instead, Weekes failed to register — lying about his whereabouts by claiming he lived in DC in February 2013 when prosecutors said he was really living with his wife in Temple Hills, Maryland since 2012.
He was hauled before Jackson, then a federal judge in DC, on Feb. 19, 2014 for sentencing after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to register.
Prosecutors asked that Weekes receive a two-year sentence — the low end of the federal guidelines, which ranged up to 30 months — with another five years of supervised release. Weekes' attorney asked for a maximum sentence of 10 months, plus three years of supervised release.
Just so you understand what happened, this lowlife raped his 13-year-old niece, was only sentenced to 16 months in jail (THE HECK??), then was charged again for failing to register as a sex offender when he was released.
During that second arrest, Jackson gave this rapist extreme leniency, even though he had violated his probation (again, for CHILD RAPE).
Prosecutor Ari Redbord told Jackson that Weekes had lived "an adult life of dishonesty, of fraud, of failing to obey court orders, and that is exactly what he did here," according to a transcript of the hearing.
Redbord then underscored the seriousness of the rape case, for which Weekes was convicted of simple assault and three misdemeanor counts.
"This is not a butt grab, a misdemeanor kind of case … this is not consensual sex between a 20-year-old and a 16-year-old," the prosecutor told Jackson. "This is an individual who, at trial, was convicted of essentially violently raping a 13-year-old child."
That didn't matter to Jackson.
Jackson, however, appeared unmoved, saying there was "no evidence" Weekes had been intentionally ducking probation officers, though she conceded he had "gotten a number of breaks, perhaps undeservedly so" in the earlier assault case.
"I do believe that criminal history is having a disproportionate impact on the sentence that the guidelines prescribe in this particular case in light of what you actually did here," said Jackson before sentencing Weekes to 12 months, with credit for time served, according to the transcript.
THE LITERAL HECK??
Jackson gave Weekes just 12 months for violating parole despite prosecutors asking for two years in prison. Weekes ended up just serving five months.
He was released five months later, the court documents show.
Of course, this disgusting criminal went on to immediately assault his sister-in-law.
According to a DC police report cited by federal prosecutors, Weekes allegedly plied his sister-in-law with liquor while she was babysitting for his wife. He then allegedly started touching her, trying three separate times to pull her leggings down, the report says.
Weekes, who had his pants down, was only stopped when she hit him hard on the head.
Weekes then allegedly paid the sister-in-law to drop her charges against him
Weekes was initially arrested and charged with first-degree sexual abuse with aggravating circumstances. However, that charge was dropped after his sister-in-law opted not to cooperate with police or testify before a grand jury.
"I no longer want to pursue this matter," the victim wrote in a letter lodged in court filings. "I want to be left alone. I don't remember any thing [sic]."
Prosecutors said Weekes had paid her $2,500 to make the matter go away.
Of course, that wasn't the last time Weekes was charged. In 2016, he was charged AGAIN for failing to register as a sex offender and was sentenced to more than 5 years.
Then in 2017, he appeared before Jackson a second time for additional charges related to the violation of his probation.
Redbord, the prosecutor, couldn't resist reminding Jackson of her earlier sentence.
"The Court imposed a 12-month sentence, I think really giving the defendant every benefit of the doubt and every opportunity to complete a period of treatment, supervision, and really kind of have an opportunity to turn his life around," he said, according to a transcript. " … And he failed at every turn to take advantage of that opportunity."
Earlier in the hearing, Redbord referred to Weekes as "the worst defendant that I have ever seen on supervision" and asked for two years to be tacked on to the end of his DC sentence.
Even then, Jackson did not agree, imposing her 24-month sentence to partially overlap with his punishment in connection with the assault on his sister-in-law.
You really have to wonder what was going on in Jackson's head. Why give a serial rapist the benefit of the doubt?? Was it a "racial equity" judgement? Does she just think sexual fiends should be allowed to rape and destroy lives at every turn, instead of the rightful sentence of a firing squad?
Defenders of Jackson have argued her sentencing record is irrelevant, since criminal cases rarely come before the Supreme Court. Republicans and conservatives have countered by noting that such cases make up the bulk of Jackson's record, since she has served just 10 months on the DC appeals court.
Yeah, how you view RAPISTS is pretty important when you're going to be handling the CONSTITUTION. That type of mishandling shouldn't be anywhere near the contract that holds this increasingly fragile nation together.
And yet KBJ will likely be confirmed to the Supreme Court this week.
Lord have mercy...
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