Except the brief is about his chamber erred in creating the J6 committee that subpoenaed him, which is why he’s headed to prison in the first place. So it’s not just a brief saying “this guy ain’t so bad!” More powerful than that. He’s basically saying “the body that I control should not have done this in the first place”
Because he held a political office, and the law enforcement and judicial systems were trying to prosecute someone he was friends with, and he openly tried to use his office to stop them from doing it and cancel the investigation.
And bingo bingo that’s three years in the pen, for “aiding a felon” among some other charges. The judge said “The people of Rio Arriba County elected you to be sheriff. They put their trust in you to uphold the law and you let them down.”
I want to know why this is different. I mean, I kind of know; it’s different because Lujan had no powerful friends. But!