(LifeSiteNews)—The man arrested for the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been sentenced to eight years and one month in prison on October 3, far short of the thirty years requested by the Department of Justice. Nicholas Roske, who now identifies as a “transgender woman”named Sophie, was referred to as female both by the sentencing judge and the press reports. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman explicitly considered Roske’s new transgender identity as a mitigating factor when handing down his sentence. Roske did not begin identifying as transgender until after his arrest, and if he adopted the identity to shorten his prison sentence, the ploy was successful. RELATED: Brett Kavanaugh’s attempted assassin now identifies as ‘transgender’Of course, “Sophie Roske” was not arrested near Kavanaugh’s home.