A man who confessed to going after Equitable Rep. Angie Craig of Minnesota in a Washington, D.C., lift this year was condemned Thursday to 27 months in jail.
Kendrid Khalil Hamlin of Washington was condemned by Boss U.S. Area Judge James E. Boasberg. He likewise faces three years of directed discharge after his jail term, the Equity Division said in a news discharge.
Hamlin confessed in June to one count of attack on an individual from Congress coming from the Feb. 9 assault, notwithstanding two counts of attack on a cop.
A representative for Craig didn’t promptly answer a solicitation for input Thursday.
In a casualty proclamation recorded for this present week, Craig said that Hamlin had followed her into the lift of her apartment building and caught her there.
“He got my neck and pummeled me into the steel wall. He hit me directly upside the head,” she composed, adding that the assault left her swollen and with a cut lip.
“While my actual recuperation was days, my psychological and close to home recuperation has taken significantly longer and is continuous,” Craig composed, noticing that she confronted demise dangers and had to move in the midst of media critique about her assault.
As indicated by court records, Hamlin likewise attacked officials who endeavored to capture him. He has stayed in guardianship from that point forward.
Hamlin’s 27-month sentence is not exactly the 39 months looked for by examiners, who in court reports alluded to Hamlin’s past convictions for attacking officials.
In a proclamation Thursday, Hamlin’s lawyers Quality Ohm and Katie D’Adamo Guevara said their client is “profoundly contrite” for the mischief he caused Craig.
“While we are disheartened in the length of the jail sentence, we are confident that he will at long last seek the emotional well-being treatment he has been chasing and frantically needs upon discharge,” they said.
Hamlin’s lawyers had pushed for a condemning of one year and a day, and said that Hamlin experienced serious psychological sickness and was “off his prescription, living in the roads, and battling intensely with compulsion” at the hour of his capture.
A lawyer for Hamlin recently said that Hamlin didn’t realize Craig was an individual from Congress, and Legislative center Police have said there was no proof the representative was designated due to her situation.
