[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This sucks. He's sentenced to 12 years, he'll be out in 6 or 7. What ever happened to that military tribunal thing that was all the rage a year ago? If this guy isn't an enemy combatant, then who the hell is?

[greggery_peccary]

"This sucks. He's sentenced to 12 years, he'll be out in 6 or 7."

In the federal system, a prisoner has to serve 85% of his sentence before being eligible for supervised release, unless the sentence in a "mandatory minimum", in which case the prisoner has to serve the entire sentence.

[Catspaw]

He'll serve a little under 12 years (119 months) in the federal prison system if he's a good boy, 140 months if he's not.