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Originally Posted by Adder
Right. I have no way of judging what's too harsh or not too harsh, but there are guidelines and you don't ignore them to please the president, who shouldn't be anywhere near the decision-making on this.
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The prosecutors argued for the upward departure for witness tampering apparently believing it was a credible threat. Stone was and is free to argue it wasn't credible. The judge would have, and will, decide. All the DOJ achieved with its revised sentencing request was to alienate its own prosecutors and undermine its credibility. But Barr did mollify his master.
LessinSF
