A Wisconsin judge “took a wrong turn” at a sentencing hearing last year by making “irrelevant” comments about crime in American cities, children born out of wedlock, and protests in Baltimore, a federal appeals court ruled last week.
At sentencing in a drug case in April 2015, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa in Milwaukee invoked the demonstrations roiling Baltimore at the time after a 25-year-old black man, Freddie Gray, died from injuries he sustained in police custody. The case before Randa didn’t involve protests, but the judge spoke about riots in Milwaukee in 1967 (he didn’t specify which protests) that were so large they prevented him getting to the airport to deploy to Vietnam.
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