defendant

“Those unresolved mental health challenges led defendant to convey the fake threat as an excuse to get out of an ongoing meeting. That decision was misguided and dangerous, but it was also an aberration.”

He said the defendants were "motivated by hostilities to a racial group or a perceived racial group."

"It will be interesting to see what the defendant comes up with," she said.

A lighter sentence would "let the defendant get away with years of domestic violence and abuse," she said.

“The defendant tries to recast decades of abuse as simply the function of mutually toxic relationships,” the prosecutors wrote.