GREEN BELT, MD — A federal judge on Friday sentenced Nicholas John Roske to eight years and one month in prison, far less than the 30-year sentence requested by the Justice Department, for attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the weeks leading up to the high court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, handed down the sentence during a hearing in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, after hearing emotional arguments from prosecutors and Roske’s family. In the end, Boardman said the sentence for Roske was fitting given the highly unusual circumstances surrounding his surrender to law enforcement in the early hours of June 8, 2022, when he called the police to surrender and report his aborted plans to assassinate Kavanaugh inside his home.