Judge rules Rick Gates doesn't have to spend days in jail during coronavirus pandemic

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN


CNN Digital Expansion 2018 Katelyn Polantz
By Katelyn Polantz and Chandelis Duster, CNN

Updated 3:07 PM ET, Tue April 21, 2020



WASHINGTON, DC: Richard Gates arrives at the Prettyman Federal Courthouse for a bail hearing November 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign deputy chair Rick Gates does not have to report to jail during the coronavirus pandemic, a judge said on Tuesday.

Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson said on Tuesday Gates' sentence of "intermittent confinement is hereby suspended indefinitely," making him the latest high-profile inmate to receive some reprieve during the outbreak.

On Sunday, Gates -- who was a top cooperator in Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation -- asked to serve his jail sentence in home confinement instead, because going in and out of jail, where coronavirus cases have easily spread, could put his family's health at risk. His wife is battling cancer.

"Mr. Gates must now provide additional care for his family for the foreseeable future while his wife continues her treatment for and recovery from cancer," his attorney, Tom Green, wrote to Jackson. "The massive societal disruptions caused by this pandemic are tragic, and the burdens they have placed on Mr. Gates and his family warrant a modification of the condition on his probation."


Read more: https://us.cnn.com/2020/04/21/politics/rick-gates-jail-sentence-home-coronavirus/index.html

[totodeinhere]

1. It might make sense to let him stay at home now. But when the coronavirus crisis has ended he

should return to prison and serve out his term.

[BlueIdaho]

2. He needs to write an IOU.

IOU 90 Days of Incarceration.

[Progressive Jones]

3. Privilege. nt

[QED]

4. What about all the POC in state and federal prisons?

Why are the well-connected people like Avenati, Gates, & Cohen granted these releases?

[greenjar_01]

5. I mean, he's white, after all

Surely all federal prisoners with less time than Rick Gates had left on his sentence were all released forthwith under the same logic.

(Waiting for the DU Conservative Lawyers Association to show up in this thread with the"Well actually's,..."