A woman in California was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for the plot to kill the justice of the Supreme Court

A resident of California, who attempted to assassinate the Supreme Court Judge Brett Cavano at his home in Maryland, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison by a federal judge, who imposed a more lenient penalty than the Ministry of Justice’s recommendation.

Sophie Rosk, a sexual transgender woman under her legal name, Nicholas Rosk, faced life prison sentence in prison. It was sentenced to the American boycott judge, Deborah Burdman, to eight years in prison and one month behind the bars, followed by a lifetime of the court’s supervision. Prosecutors requested a prison sentence for at least 30 years, which was the low end of the recommended scope by instructions for issuing rulings.

Rosk, 26, had a pistol, knife, postal code links and robbery in his possession when a taxi dropped it outside the Kavanau house in Chevy Chis, MD. , After one o’clock in the morning on June 8, 2022. The American Marshal’s representatives noticed the protection of housing, Rosk continued to walk on the street and receive a phone call from her sister. Then she called 911, and stated that the presence of suicide and killed ideas and said she needed psychological help.

The judge said that the law enforcement does not know anything about the Rosk conspiracy until she contacted the number 911 and reported her crime. Burdmman described Rosk’s behavior as “reprehensible”, but he attributed it to abandoning the plot before the police discovered its presence in the Kavanu neighborhood.

“This is the defendant in a non -stereotype,” she said.

Rosk apologized to Cavano and the Justice family, “for the great pressure I put them for them.”

“I was photographed as a monster, and this tragic mistake I committed will follow me for the rest of my life,” said Rosk before learning her punishment.

Burdamman admitted that Rosk’s plot caused “real damage” to Cavano and his family.

“He is the judge of the Supreme Court, but he is a human being,” the judge said.

More targeted judges

After her arrest, Rosk told the investigators that she was angry at a draft leakage opinion indicating that the Supreme Court aims to cancel the ROE V case. Wade, the issue of historical miscarriage, according to the FBI’s written statement. The statement said that Rosk was annoyed by the school’s massacre in Ovald, Texas, and it is believed that Cavano would vote to ease the laws of controlling weapons.

Rosk’s case emphasizes the widespread threat of political violence in a polarized country: the number of threats and “inappropriate communications” directed at federal judges and other court employees more than seven years ago, from 926 incidents in 2015 to 4,511 in 2021, according to school service.

Prosecutors said that Rosk targeted three Supreme Court judges. Roske wrote on an encrypted correspondent for another user in May 2022, and Rosk added, “The killing of one of the judges could change the decisions of the court of nine members” for decades “.

ROSKE, 29, from Simi Valley, California, searched the internet from the headlines of judges and other information, including home storming techniques and killing someone quietly. Rosk also wrote about the killing of judges in encrypted messages.

“The idea of ​​marriage to Roe V Wade and Gay, which has been canceled, has been angry,” Rosk wrote.

“I am very happy because I did not continue.”

Rosk acknowledged that he was guilty in April on charges of assassination without reaching a guilt.

Public Prosecutors recommended imprisonment for at least 30 years, followed by a lifetime of supervision.

They wrote: “The goal of the defendant – to target judges and kill them to seek to change the court’s ruling – is a form of terrorism and strikes at the heart of the United States’ constitution and our specific system of the government.”

Rosk’s lawyers requested the prison sentence for eight years. They said that she was ashamed and regretted the frightening Cavano and his family.

“I am very happy because I did not continue,” Rosk wrote in a letter submitted to the court. “I am also sorry to contribute towards political violence in American politics. I can now see how you destroy such devastating and misleading acts, and I am ashamed not to know these things sooner.”

Mental health is fighting

Rosk’s lawyers said she was struggling with mental illness and her sexual identity. She went out to herself as a sexual converted woman in 2020, but she kept her secretly from her parents. She recently resumed sexual affirmation while imprisoning her, according to her lawyers.

Rosk was severely depressed and suicide in May 2022 when Politico published a draft leakage of abortion rights at the Supreme Court. Her lawyers said that Rosk decided that she could “give her life some meaning” by preventing the Supreme Court from canceling a case against Wadi.

“Decally, I stopped causing harm to another person,” they wrote. “Its actions led to a large part of isolation and non -treatment insufficiently. But in the deepest moment of the crisis, its humanity has shown.”

Prosecutors said that Rosk mental illness is not an excuse.

They wrote: “The sentence here must be transferred strongly to the defendant and others to take matters to the hands of the individual as a judge, a jury, and the executioner is completely convicted and they will be punished.”

Rosk’s parents, Vernon and Coleen, Kavanu, also apologized during the ruling pronunciation session. Vernon Rosk said he hopes to communicate better with Sophie about her personal conflicts.

“I should have paid it for better care,” he added.