...just not here.
The latest includes 7th and 10th Circuits.
The 10th Circuit nominee caught my eye as a former defender. We need more!
Rich Federico joined the Federal Public Defender for the District of Kansas in Topeka in 2017. He has served as the Senior Litigator since 2020 and previously served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender from 2018 to 2020 and as a Research and Writing Specialist from 2017 to 2018. Mr. Federico also serves as a Captain in the United States Navy Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He has been a Military Judge for the Navy Reserve Trial Judiciary since 2019, and he served as an Appellate Defense Counsel from 2015 to 2019. Mr. Federico was an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon in Portland from 2015 to 2017. Before that, Mr. Federico served on active duty in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps as a prosecutor from 2002 to 2008 and as a defense counsel from 2008 to 2015. In his last duty station on active duty, he served as Officer in Charge of two defense offices. He received his LL.M., highest distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2012, his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2002, and his B.A.J. from Indiana University in 1999.
Meantime, some prosecutors continue to behave badly. From Reuters:
A former high-level U.S. prosecutor in Florida was sentenced on Wednesday to six months of probation for a criminal ethics charge in which authorities said she approved contracts in her office for companies that financially benefited her husband.
Prosecutors said Kathryn Drey, who served from 2019 to 2021 as chief of the civil division of the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of Florida, did not request or receive a waiver for what the government called an "inherent conflict."
Drey, licensed to practice law in Florida since 1998, pleaded guilty in March. Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers to impose a sentence of two years of probation.
"The significant collateral consequences she has suffered — retirement from public service and impending loss of her license to practice law — provide a sufficient deterrent to promote respect for the law," prosecutors told Rodgers in a court filing last week.
I typically see the govt say that collateral consequences don't matter... so judges, please start taking this into account in all cases, not just prosecutors who get into trouble.
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Yet again, the system protects it's own.
I practice in the NDFL and have never seen a plea agreement that included an agreement for probation before her case.
Seriously....when has job/reputation loss ever been a factor for mitigation. For any other defendant, there would have been enhancements for:
Sophisticated means + 8
Leader Organizer + 3
Abuse of Position of Trust + 5.75
Crimeing while Driving +1.87
Failure to Plead When Indicted (FPWI) +2
Lack of Criminal History Because of White Privilege (LCHBWP+) +7
Use of Interstate Computer Network +5
Fuckers.
Lmao, her husband f'd it up:
"This scheme was ultimately uncovered when the Defendant’s husband submitted an invoice to the USAO-NDFL with the name of Company A (rather than Company B who had been contracted to do the work), which caught the attention of budget personnel in the USAO-NDFL. Had this error in accounting by the Defendant’s husband not occurred, the scheme could have continued indefinitely without detection"
Sentencing Memo at 3.
Kansas has 2 GOP Senators. Interesting.
Love 3:38 pm Not poaching but please also come write for my blog. You got what it takes.
“Crimeing while driving”…FPWI. LOVE IT.
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