A judge in California is letting a violent white supremacist off easy because he doesn't believe that prosecutors have been equally as tough on violent members of Antifa.
USA Today reports that U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney last week sentenced defendant Tyler Laube to just 35 days in prison, even after he admitted in court that he beat a journalist at a white supremacist rally in 2017 while also pleading guilty to violating anti-riot laws.
In his memo justifying the light sentence, Judge Carney slammed prosecutors for seeking six months in jail for Laube while at the same time supposedly going light on violent left-wing demonstrators.
“Sentencing Mr. Laube to additional incarceration would only increase the disparity between his punishment and the lack of punishment (and prosecution) members of far-left groups who have committed the same violent conduct received,” Carney argued.
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However, USA Today notes that Carney's analysis of this disparity seems questionable given that, "The same day Laube received his light sentence at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, the largest-ever prosecution of members of Antifa in American history was going to trial just 89 miles away."
Specifically, prosecutors in San Diego were wrapping up their prosecution of the last two defendants among a group of Antifa supporters who were charged with committing violence against Trump supporters in January 2021.
What's more, the report notes, the nine other co-defendants in the case have already received sentences, with some looking at years of prison time.
John Donohue, a professor at Stanford Law School, reacted strongly to Judge Carney's apparently politicized sentencing memo.
"He's really gone off the deep end," he said.
Carney in 2020 stepped down from his position as chief judge of the Central District of California after he made racially insensitive remarks to a Black law clerk related to the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
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