That is doubly puzzling.

See my short entry of this afternoon. Judge Ramos is a very capable federal jurist.

He specifically agreed with the jury. And that jury found Mr. Milton was lying about material matters, at Nikola. He said today that people were truly harmed by those lies — into the millions of dollars.

But breaking with a trend against being free after felonies, on an appeal — Judge Ramos allowed Trevor Milton to stay outside. True, he hasn’t been a flight risk so far. But who knows what an effective three year sentence will do to his judgment?

I think — respectfully — that Judge Ramos got this one wrong. True, he is not like Elizabeth Holmes — patients were not making life and death decisions (as they were, based on her false technological claims)… but fake electric cars… are still… fake.

Onward,