Judge Gets Brutally Honest With Defendant Asking For Leniency With A 'Hell No'

Judge Gets Brutally Honest With Defendant Asking For Leniency With A 'Hell No'

Briefly

This was blatant, it was brazen, and in my mind, it was deliberate, it was a betrayal. And it was as close to treasonous as you can get.

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The judge said he was only sentencing him to 262 months in prison because that's what federal prosecutors asked for, adding that he would have been comfortable sentencing him to 'a whole lot more.'

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Not only 'no,' Judge Moore said, 'Hell no.' He added that Dalke, 32, 'earned every bit of 262, and that's what I'm going to give you.'

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In rejecting the defendant's proposed jail time and imposing the harsher sentence, the judge also noted Dalke's history of lying, saying, 'I've got nothing to back it up other than your word and your word is worth nothing.'

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