Supreme Court declines to review Rand Paul attacker’s case

Published April 27, 2020 1:57pm ET



The Supreme Court declined to examine a case involving the neighbor who assaulted Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.

Last week, the high court declined an appeal from Rene Boucher, who tackled Paul in 2017 and pleaded guilty to a felony count of assaulting a member of Congress resulting in personal injury in 2018, after the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals determined his original sentence was too lenient for the crime.

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