Woman gets jail for group attack on gay Philadelphia couple

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15. UPDATE: New Attorney Files for Mulligan on Plea Deal

Last edited Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:56 PM - Edit history (12)

Philadelphia Gay News.com:

Ten days after (she was) ordered to prison...Bill Brennan, who has taken over Knott’s defense...filed a motion for reconsideration...

“In multi-defendant cases, courts historically have tried to show some commonality, some parity of sentences. The individuals in this matter who actually physically inflicted the harm, the striking blows, received sentences of non-incarceration,” Brennan said. “We understand that Ms. Knott exercised her right to trial but, in the final analysis, all three defendants have been adjudged guilty — two by pleas and one by a verdict — so we are going to ask the court to reconsider partially based on a disparity in the punishment imposed.”

MyInforms.com:

According to Brennan, Knott “has learned a lot in the (past) 18 months,”...and her sentencing should be more rehabilitative... “In this case, the individual has a clean background, no prior contact with the justice system, and is serving prison time for a mid-level misdemeanor...”

Brennan doesn't seem to realize that he's employing the exact same strategy that got Knott convicted. She's just TOO gosh-darned respectable AND female to be treated like -- well, a common criminal? Neither the jury nor the judge agreed, and most likely because Mr. Brennan left a single pivotal word out of his argument.

Knott's co-defendants were adjudged guilty by plea DEALS (which, in case he also didn't know, were offered with the victims' blessings). The "disparity" in sentencing that Brennan (and DUer RobinA) noticed is that probation was the co-defendants' "reward" for sparing everyone the time and stresses of a trial. Knott turned down her plea deal -- now she deserves a lesser sentence on the grounds that she didn't get acquitted?


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