A California resident was sentenced in a Maryland federal court on Friday for a failed assassination attempt on the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh .

In April , Sophie Roske, 29, accepted a plea deal on a lone felony count of attempting to kidnap or murder, or threatening to assault, kidnap, or murder a sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

The crime in question offers a rare form of open-ended punishment. The statute itself notes that someone convicted "shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life."

In exchange for that plea, and for the admissions that preceded it, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee, sentenced the defendant to 97 months in federal prison – just over eight years and exactly one month more than defense cou

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