Ronald Dean Yandell argued he was a victim of political retaliation before he was formally sentenced for murder and drug smuggling plots hatched from his California prison cell.
SACRAMENTO — In a spirited Wednesday court hearing, a commissioner of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang defiantly called the case against him an act of political retaliation and predicted the courts have not seen the last of him.
Federal prosecutors didn’t speak much during Wednesday’s hearing, but they didn’t have to. Both Sylvester and Yandell’s convictions carry mandatory life terms, and the defense didn’t ask for anything less. When Yandell’s lawyers asked Senior U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller when they might expect their client to end up in federal prison, she laughed and simply said, “separation of powers,” meaning she can’t force the federal prison system to accept anyone. When asked by the judge if he wished to provide any clarity to this issue, U.S. Attorney Jason Hitt said he did not.
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