This is hypocritical. Any other defendent found to have committed what amounts to gross professional negligence that deprived someone of a basic right (freedom

This is hypocritical. Any other defendent found to have committed what amounts to gross professional negligence that deprived someone of a basic right (freedom to move about) would be looking at some combination of (1) a revoked license, (2) severe damages, and (3) paying the harmed party's legal fees. The longer the US government continues this kind of hypocrisy the more it risks being replaced.