And they are out: Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart walk out of the Baltimore city courthouse after 36 yrs for a crime they didn’t do:
Tom Jackman
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Tom Jackman
@TomJackmanWP
Running the True Crime blog for The Washington Post, focus on crime, policing and courts. Devotee of live music, late nights, lazy Sundays. Proud Guild member.
- Finding the white supremacists who beat a black man in Charlottesville, @shaunking did what cops wouldn't. wapo.st/2glHksF?tid=ss…
- Replying to @TomJackmanWP"I'm doing this primarily because of the impact Asperger's had on your actions," McFadden said. Rodean was allowed to keep his job as a dog walker, his family promised to be hyper vigilant. It seemed exactly the right outcome, from a judge often criticized as a 'Trump appointee.'
- A short thread: Just watched an amazing sentencing of Jan. 6 defendant Nicholas Rodean, who is on the autism spectrum with Asperger's Syndrome. He smashed two windows at the Capitol, and was convicted in a one-day bench trial. The government sought 57 months in prison.
- At 15th and Penn, crowd chanting “Take a knee!” at a line of cops. And one did. He knelt down in the line. The crowd roared, and a supervisor yanked the (black male) officer by his collar out of the line. They argued briefly and he returned to the line.
- One of the three Oath Keepers charged with conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot, Donovan Crowl, was just ordered held without bond. Govt cited Oath Keepers webpage declaring Biden Admin, militias should muster. Pretrial recommended release, judge in Dayton said no.
- Replying to @TomJackmanWPMcFadden had earlier reduced the sentencing range to 21-27 months, which the prosecutor said was fine. McFadden then went below that, and gave Rodean eight months of home detention, with 30 minutes of internet per day, and five years of probation.
- Replying to @TomJackmanWPIn the tone you would use with a 9-year-old, the judge asked: "Mr. Rodean, are you ever going to do this again?" Rodean said no. I thought I was going to cry. His lawyer had pointed out that prison for him would be horrendous. McFadden agreed.
- Replying to @Imafrayedknot1 @ScottFConroy and 2 othersNothing really matters Nothing really matters to me. Any way the wind blows. -- Sartre
- Breaking: Fairfax Judge Robert Smith rules against Gingrich, issues certificate requiring him to testify before Ga. grand jury in election probe. Preview story here;
- Replying to @TomJackmanWPThen it came time for him to speak. He rambled about antifa and BLM and what he did and that he was very sorry for his crimes. It was heartbreakingly obvious that he had Asperger's. He covered his ears when his lawyer tried to help. Then Judge Trevor McFadden asked one question.
- Replying to @TomJackmanWPI did not watch his trial, but he was photographed alongside Jacob Chansley, the QAnon shaman. His lawyer and family said he is a 'maniacal rule follower' who truly did just follow the crowd from the Capitol, and whose support systems collapsed in the pandemic.
- Replying to @MollyJongFastDear God will you please rake the leaves this weekend they are really piling up in God's name we ask you. Amen. (Just to the curb, no bagging needed)
- The @washingtonpost celebrates three Pulitzers, with winners Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels (left of pillar), Eli Saslow (checked shirt) and Caroline Kitchener (brown dress), applauded by Executive Editor Sally Buzbee.
