[Gay State Conservative]

Ten years??? Give him 50!

[Gay State Conservative]

"Matthew has no priors, is working full-time right now and I am hoping to argue for a non-custodial sentence," she said.

And if your client had done this during WWII,sweetie,he would have been put up against the wall.And that nation would have cheered.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[jriemer]

... Meehan said the severed wires posed "... no risk of injury because, as I understand it, the helicopter would never (have been) able to take off."

So if the sabotaged helicopter injures or kills its passengers and crew on the ground, it's OK by this public defender?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Montgomery's attorney, public defender Mara Meehan, said she would push for leniency at sentencing if he pleads guilty or is convicted.

WTF?

[Travis McGee]

Take him up and toss him out. No chute.

[Army Air Corps]

...facing up to 10 years in prison and $500,000 in fines and restitution for severing a bundle of wires on a Chinook helicopter.

Not enough. Make it 50 years or more.

[Seaplaner]

Bradley said the investigation continues and a reward still stands for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for damaging the transmission of a second Chinook.

This sounds quite serious. Possibly like the kind of problem in which a Chinook can take off before suffering a catastrophic MLF.

Perhaps Mr. Mongomery could be in the "loop" here too, and might like to trade a few decades worth of additional incarceration for some info?

As a Navy and Marine Dad, I'd like to volunteer for Mongomery's jury.

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[jazusamo]

If he pleads or is convicted he deserves a max sentence no matter how much sobbing Ms. Meehan does.

[Chode]

Matthew has no priors, is working full-time right now... WHERE??? better not still be at Boeing.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.....it was 2 sets of sabotage.