Posted on 02/02/2010 6:43:46 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
A federal appeals court said Tuesday a 22-year prison sentence was too lenient for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Day 2000.
A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Ahmed Ressam deserved a much longer prison term because he had reneged on a deal to cooperate with terrorism investigators around the world.
U.S. prosecutors said Ressam's change-of-heart after two years of cooperation compromised at least two terrorist cases in the U.S., resulting in charges being dropped.
The appeals court also took the rare step of removing from the case the Seattle trial judge who imposed the initial sentence.
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You're welcome...
Update...
65 years to life.
Sounds about right.
Bump AND thanks for the ping But Three Lefts Do.
We can negotiate up from there...
I suspect there will be little contrition after 65 years. Maybe 75 years ?
So 2 lefts do make a right...
We should outsource our prisons to Russia. They have all those empty gulags out in Siberia since the end of the Soviet era. We could put them to good use.
That’ll learn him...
No, 2 lefts make a down...
;-)
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