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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson once sentenced a previously-deported drug dealer to less than two years in prison, when prosecutors, defense and sentencing guidelines recommended a longer term behind bars.
Jackson acknowledged from the bench the sentencing guidelines called for 27 to 33 months in prison for Daniel Garcia-Guerrero of El Salvador. Both the prosecutor and the defense team had told Jackson they’d recommend the lower end of the guidance at 27 months.
But Jackson told the defendant — who was previously convicted of dealing drugs in 2002 — that she’d sentence him below the guidelines at 21 months, noting when he returned illegally to the United States he did not commit an additional crime and there “were family circumstances that appeared to be the motivation for your return.”
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“The Court believes that the just and appropriate sentence … does fall below the guideline range, both in fairness to you because you were told at the plea stage that the guideline range would be significantly lower and in light of the fact that you would be deported upon release,” Jackson said at the sentencing hearing in 2013, according to a court transcript obtained by Fox News Digital.
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The transcript was first reported by Breitbart News.
The case has come to light during Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation process as Republicans are digging through her sentencing record and noting patterns where Jackson deviated from guidelines to impose lesser sentences. Her record of handing down shorter sentences than the guidelines recommended for child pornography offenders has especially been condemned by Republicans.
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