This judge has a very high rate of overturned rulings, and reliably rules for conservative causes. Prosecutors openly acknowledge strategically filing cases in

This judge has a very high rate of overturned rulings, and reliably rules for conservative causes. Prosecutors openly acknowledge strategically filing cases in his court for conservative causes. It isn't a mistake that he was the judge here, and there is a very good chance the sentences will be overturned if not entire cases. Of course, that doesn't matter to these defendants, some of whom probably do deserve punishment for what they did, and all of whom will suffer through years of appeals, stress, etc. because some prosecutor wanted to make their career on a big case, and will have moved on years before this is all resolved. In short, the case was made for headlines, and after putting the defendants through hell, appeals will invalidate most of those headlines after incurring great expense on behalf of the taxpayers and defendants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_O%27Connor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_O%27Connor