Nicholas “Sophie” Roske, the man who tried to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022, received a lenient prison sentence Friday after telling a federal district court he was a woman.
Roske will serve eight years, rather than the 30 years prosecuting attorneys recommended during the trial in Greenbelt, Maryland, according to The New York Times.
In part, Judge Deborah Boardman based her ruling on Roske’s “identifying” as a woman, something his defense attorneys disclosed in September.
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Roske revealed in court that, at the time of the crime, he was afraid to tell his parents about his true “gender identity,” The New York Times reported.
Convicted as a man, Roske would go to a male-only prison, in accordance with President Donald Trump’s January executive
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