Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:<p>Ninth Circuit Reverses Probation Sentence for Paige Thompson: <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2025/03/18/ninth-circuit-reverses-probation-sentence-for-transgender-hacker/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reason.com/volokh/2025/03/18/n</span><span class="invisible">inth-circuit-reverses-probation-sentence-for-transgender-hacker/</span></a></p><p>As with the recent case involving Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka "Pompompurin"), the appellate court found that the district court's time-served plus probation sentence for Paige Thompson was too significant a departure from federal sentencing guidelines. Although the court could properly consider factors such as being transgender and autistic, they shouldn't have ignored other sentencing factors so much.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hack</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CapitalOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalOne</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AWS</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ASD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ASD</span></a> </p><p>h/t, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>campuscodi</span></a></span></p>