Louis Ziskin

And it's one of the things we can explain without spending 10 years on the legal background.

So anyway, the judge said...

You were in this court for the last year, explaining to me why the rule of law doesn't apply to you.

I find it ironic that you want me to apply the rule of law to the government today when it suits you.

As I said, the record will stand on its own four corners.

So the people go, I get sentenced 30 years.

The judge is like at sentencing.

He's like, he's denied every motion I've ever made.

Granted, every government motion, everything, taking their word down the board.

I didn't realize why he did this then, but this is what he did.

He said, since the 30 years, he had to give me 30 because if you have to stack the counts, you can only go to the low end of the guideline.

And my counts were only 20 years each.

You could stack them, but if you have to go over the statutory maximum to meet the guideline range, you can only do it to get to the low end of the range.

So 360 was the sentence.

I knew that going in.

360 months, 30 years.

So then the appeal goes, oh, so he gives me 30 years and he says, and now I got a CCE case that I'm looking at life down the hall with Judge Snyder.

And he knows all about it.

And he's like,

On my own motion, I'm going to give Mr. Ziskin three years of supervised release instead of five, because if he gets out, he'll be of such an age that I think three years will be appropriate.