"Dimitri actually read a letter to the judge asking the judge to make more mercy on Mr. Tate and Mr. Benton than on himself because they didn't know about this he did," said Kesari's attorney Jesse Binnall. "We can disagree whether or not it was illegal all day long but he admitted to the court today that he made a serious mistake and judge Jarvey appropriately tempered the need for some justice here based on what he felt with an appropriate level of mercy."