Posted on 12/04/2020 3:52:57 PM PST by xomething
A federal appeals court has thrown out the 16-year prison sentence for a suburban Chicago man convicted in a terrorist bombing plot, saying the judge paid only “lip service” to the seriousness of the crime and overplayed the defendant’s immaturity at the time the FBI caught him in the sting.
The ruling Tuesday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sends the case of Adel Daoud back to the district court for resentencing, marking yet another twist in an unusual terrorism case that began more than nine years ago when Daoud was just 17....
“We do not see how social ineptitude could excuse repeated violent criminal behavior that reflected an extraordinary disregard for human life,” Judge Amy St. Eve wrote in the opinion, which was joined by Judges Kenneth Ripple and Michael Brennan....
Daoud, of Hillside, was 17 when he came under FBI scrutiny in 2011 while exchanging messages online about his hatred of the U.S. government and his desire to die a martyr. FBI analysts posing as terrorists eventually got Daoud to meet with an undercover agent...
In one meeting in Villa Park in August 2012, Daoud allegedly told the agent he wanted to maximize the carnage so he would feel like he “accomplished something.”
“If it’s only like five, 10 people, I’m not gonna feel that good,” Daoud said in a recording that was played at his sentencing hearing. “I wanted something that’s ... massive. I want something that’s gonna make it in the news like tonight.”
Daoud was arrested in an alley across from the Cactus Bar & Grill on Sept. 14, 2012, after he twice pressed the detonator to what he thought was a 1,000-pound car bomb he’d parked outside the crowded pub.
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McConnell needs to schedule a vote on Trump’s nominee to fill the vacancy on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals left by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. And Trump needs to name a nominee to fill the 2nd current vacancy on the 7th Court of Appeals. Both actions need to be done ASAP!
For that 2nd vacancy, I’d recommend Judge Holly Brady who sits on the US District Court for the Northern District of Indiana... she’s young and the leftists hate her.
Looks like the dasher who delivered my Hopdaddy tonight.
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