Rene Boucher sentenced for Rand Paul assault

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Source: WBKO News

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - The man convicted of attacking Senator Rand Paul was sentenced in federal court Friday.

Rene Boucher was sentenced to 30 days in custody of the bureau of prisons followed by one year of supervised release, a $10,000 fine, to have no intentional contact with the Paul family, and 100 hours of community service.

The court did not order any financial restitution, and at the time none was asked for.

Boucher waived his right to appeal and he will report to prison on his own.

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Read more: http://www.wbko.com/content/news/Rene-Boucher-sentenced-for-Rand-Paul-assault-485675011.html

[Vinca]

1. Everyone has their breaking point. LOL.

[7962]

2. 30 days? For that serious of an assault? Thats BS. He could have killed a sitting US Senator.

Regardless of party.
I'm afraid some nuts out there will think "hell, I can do 30 days"

[bucolic_frolic]

4. An ordinary Joe would get far more

maybe it's a 'gentleman of property' discount, southern style

the judge would do what he could to cool down what are, after all, neighbors

[atreides1]

5. He could have

But he didn't!

[ansible]

7. Rand wanted to keep the whole thing quiet and didn't even want him charged

The whole thing seems to have embarrassed him more than hurt him.

[braddy]

8. Yep, this light sentence doesn't make sense, in fact is a little scary, Senator or not, what

if Paul was a female.

[Major Nikon]

13. Mitigating factors

From what I’ve heard of the case, Paul provoked the guy for quite a while. So while there’s no excuse for violence, when one behaves like a festering asshole, getting your ass handed to you is an occupational hazard.

[Drahthaardogs]

16. Did you see what Paul did to him?

He was provoked for months and finally snapped.

[FSogol]

19. If he lives in the same neighborhood as Paul, he's rich. Another slap on the wrist for the rich guy.

[dalton99a]

3. The asshole had it coming to him

[MicaelS]

9. Which one? n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Will there be no end to the violence in Bowling Green? SMH. NT

[keithbvadu2]

12. KellyAnne Conway's Bowling Green Massacre?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. I dare not mention it, to avoid inspiring copycats.

Invisible copycats, but copycats nonetheless.

[MicaelS]

10. Really pathetic how some people get so enraged about their yards.

This Boucher was a nut.

Boucher snapped after Paul continued to stack a pile of brush and lawn debris near the property line between the two neighbors. According to the documents, the feud began in the summer of 2017, when Boucher clipped some maple tree branches that were extending onto his property.

Then in September 2017, Paul stacked a 10-foot-wide, 5-foot-high pile of limbs and shrubbery clippings just off Boucher’s property line. “Even though this debris was not on Dr. Boucher’s property, he viewed it as unsightly — as it was placed directly in his line of sight from his patio and the back door of his house,” the court filing said.

Boucher, according to neighbors, was a stickler when it came to his property. He paid professionals to tend to his yard, but Paul did his own landscaping. And it may not have been up to Boucher’s standards. “He had his yard sitting at a beautiful two-and-a-half, three inches thick, where Rand cuts it to the nub,” Bill Goodwin, a Bowling Green resident who knows both men, told GQ in November.

Paul, hobbyist mower that he is, also may not have been the most attentive at the post–yard work cleanup. Boucher fretted over Paul’s grass clippings that ended up in his yard, confronting the senator and complaining to the neighborhood association. “I've asked him and I've asked him and I've asked him,” Goodwin remembers Boucher complaining about the senator’s lawn etiquette. “How long can you sit there taking someone plucking a hair out of your nose?”

[samir.g]

11. Can I donate money to his canteen?

[7962]

14. Nice. Donate to the guy who assaults a Senator.

[LanternWaste]

20. Must be a tough old world

Must be a tough old world when it's filled with opinions different than yours.

Nice, as well.

[7962]

21. So we've got you down in favor of political assaults as expressing an "opinion". Cool!

Add that to backing police cowardice. Good rep you're building!!

[ck4829]

15. Come on, this is wrong...

It's totally wrong to donate money to the canteens of people who assault people who take your money and tell you providing you government service is "socialism", it's totally wrong to donate money to the canteens of people who assaulted someone who would have been OK with sitting next to a fascist theocratic sex offender who has been thrown off the bench twice, it's totally wrong to donate to the canteens of people who assault someone who has turned being liberal into a thought crime, and it's totally wrong to donate to the canteens of people who assaulted someone who has a political base of people who think the Holocaust was one big "LOL" moment and thinks that a war with a religion of a billion and a half people would be "fun".

, allegedly.

[samir.g]

18. Well put