Kennedy to Judge Lipez: Activist Judge? You have more sympathy for criminals than victims

Biden judicial nominee Maine Superior Court Justice Julia Lipez. Lipez is Biden’s nominee for the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. During a March 2023 sentencing hearing, Lipez reduced Smith’s 12-year sentence to 6 years and praised him as a “good” person.

“People are complicated,” Lipez said during the hearing. “I have frankly been offered very little insight as to how or why this happened. What I can say is that this is a very tragic situation of a person who has a lot of good in him having done a very reprehensible thing”

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Kennedy to Judge Lipez: Activist Judge? You have more sympathy for criminals than victims

Key Points

Biden judicial nominee Maine Superior Court Justice Julia Lipez

• Lipez is Biden’s nominee for the U
• During a March 2023 sentencing hearing, Lipez reduced Smith’s 12-year sentence to 6 years and praised him as a “good” person
• “People are complicated,” Lipez said during the hearing

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• You have more sympathy for the criminal than the victim, don’t you
• Senator, I worked on behalf of victims of crime zealously as a prosecutor, as a judge
• I don’t believe I know a Micah Smith, Senator
• I bet the victims of Micah Smith, remember Micah Smith, if you don’t
• What I can say, you said, is that this is a very tragic situation of a person who has a lot of good in him, a lot of good in him
• Senator, in that case, I impose a sentence to state requested
• Did I read that, your quotation correctly
• Senator, that I think is a portion of what I said at sentencing
• That’s what was reported in the paper, Senator
• I have not seen a transcript of the sentencing

Full transcript: 469 words transcribed via Whisper AI.