In a startling follow-up to a case that allowed a rapist to serve 15 months in jail – only to beat a man in a wheelchair at Bellevue Transit Center last month – the same King County judge has shocked local law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and even defense attorneys involved in a separate case.
On Wednesday, King County Superior Court judge Maureen McKee ignored the 10-year sentence plea agreement reached by prosecutors and the defense team for Jeffery Hamlet and reduced his sentence to just 7.5 years. With three years already served, Hamlet could be back on the streets in four years.
During her ruling, McKee told Hamlet that
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