Jared Fogle, the disgraced former Subway spokesman who was sentenced to more than a decade in jail on child porn and sex charges, is hitting back against the judge who presided over his case.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, Fogle argued, was biased because she has teenage daughters and thus did not preside fairly over his case and should instead remove herself, according to the Indy Star.
The judge sentenced Fogle to more than 15 years in jail in November 2015 after he pleaded guilty, in accordance with a plea deal, to one count each of traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and distribution and receipt of child pornography. The sentence ended up being longer than what both lawyer teams suggested at the time with Fogle’s plea, the Indy Star said.
Now Fogle is claiming that the connection between his case and Pratt’s family caused her to have “objective bias, and subjective bias,” according to a motion he filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, the Indy Star said.
“It is the opinion of a ‘reasonable party’ that Judge Tanya Walton Pratt has demonstrated she is prejudicially biased to the Defendant Jared S. Fogle, and should in facts and law, recuse herself from these proceedings,” the motion said.
Fogle is also claiming that Pratt should not have accepted the prosecution’s conspiracy charge against him, the Indy Star said. He made the same claim during his 2016 sentencing appeal, according to the outlet.
In fairness it's not Jared making these claims. It's his attorney, who I'm assuming is getting paid to make whatever moves he believes will benefit his client.
He can still bend over and spread um though. This message has been edited. Last edited by: a1abdj,
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's easier to just not try to have sex with kids.
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February 08, 2018, 01:58 AM
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Originally posted by arcwelder76: I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's easier to just not try to have sex with kids.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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February 08, 2018, 04:28 AM
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Jared Fogle - both began and ended his career at Subway trying to get into smaller pants.
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February 08, 2018, 05:13 AM
Leemur
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Originally posted by arcwelder76: I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's easier to just not try to have sex with kids.
Hmmm...nah, totally judge’s fault.
February 08, 2018, 06:05 AM
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Originally posted by egregore: Jared Fogle - both began and ended his career at Subway trying to get into smaller pants.
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