20200129 USSC Helpline
📍 It's 1158 on Wednesday, January 29th. I'm gonna be calling the US Commission, uh, sentencing Commission helpline. That's typically for practitioners, but I left a message with the Public Affairs Office. This is my my second attempt to reach someone at the USSC.
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Hi, my name is Logan Isaac. I am not a judge, an attorney or probation officer. I don't represent one. Um, I was given this number at, uh, a, a phone number that I thought was the public affairs office. With whom I did leave a message. Um, but somebody said that I might try the practitioner's helpline, uh, because I've spoken with, um, agents at the FBI and DOJ and they don't have an answer for me, and they don't.
Seem to know themselves what to do. My question is regarding Title 18, section 1389, prohibition against service members and their families, uh, up to and including five years after their discharge, um, amendment 7 43 of the US sentencing guidelines mentions. The Hate Crimes Act under which, uh, section 1389 came to law.
Um, but it appears that, that the commission determined that the punishments that were, um, prescribed under that section of the Hate Crimes Act, um, were basically the same as assault, minor assault, and property damage. Uh, I'm calling to find out if that's the case and how someone at, at D-O-J-F-B-I, whatever, um.
Whether or not that is, that holds true if, if those punishments are the same, if they were to charge someone over under 1389, would that be the prescribed sentencing, uh, for those acts? Uh, again, I'm not an attorney or a judge or probation officer. I do not represent one. It was, I was encouraged to call this phone number because I've spoken with, uh, I think the count is now seven.
FBI, special agents who don't know what to do, um, if they were to charge someone under section 1389. Um, I'm just a private citizen. I'm not a journalist. I'm just trying to understand what happens, uh, what the prescriptions are when a, a service member or their family is, uh, made victim to a a hate crime.
I do understand if you can't return my call because I'm not a member of the law enforcement community, I'm just looking for some kind of, um, understanding of, of how that section, um, is sentenced. Because no one at the FBI seems to know as well, and I, I don't believe that DOJ has ever issued guidance.
Uh, so again, I, I would appreciate a call. I know, I understand you might have some restrictions. My name again is Logan Isaac. Thank you so much.
