Posted on 01/16/2007 5:42:24 PM PST by Jay777
...just the latest example of how a powerful segment of society does not take the existential of Islamic terrorism seriously.
AP: Appeals court vacates sentence of 'millennium bomber' Ressam
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday vacated the sentence of "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested near the U.S.-Canadian border and convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium. Ressam was arrested in December 1999 In Port Angeles, Wash., when he drove off a ferry from British Columbia with a trunk full of explosives. Prosecutors said he was intent on bombing the airport on the eve of the millennium.He was sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of all nine charges. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed his conviction on one of the charges and sent the case back to a lower court judge to issue a new sentence and explain the rationale behind the original 22-year term.
The decision does not necessarily mean the defendant will get a shorter term, as federal prosecutors said the original sentence was too light and judges are given wide latitude to sentence defendants as they see fit.
Full analysis at Stop The ACLU
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Sure wish Sandy hadnt stolen those documents.
Another little thingy the GOP didn't get done....splitting the 9th.....enjoy
5th post of this........... over and unders set at 9!
I did a search of 9th Circuit and nothing came up.
That statement is true on so many levels that have nothing to do with duplicate posts.
It happens, we have all done it ( I think). I was just pokin a little fun!
No wonder: FReepers usually refer to it as the "9th Circus"...
'-)
Give him fifty, judge. He will be an imminent threat to innocent lives as soon as he is on the outside.
Whenever I hear the terms 9th Circuit and vacate in the same sentence I can't help but think of vacate in the biological sense.
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