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Notable terrorism resentencing results in same sentence

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in reports from the AP and from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the so-called "millenium bomber" has been resentenced to the same 22-year prison term he was given before the original sentence had been reversed by the Ninth Circuit.  Here are the notable basics: A federal judge in Seattle rejected a life sentence Wednesday for Ahmed Ressam, whose terrorist plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium holiday rush was thwarted in 1999 by an alert customs officer in Port Angeles. Federal prosecutors sought life because Ressam has stopped cooperating with investigators.  But U.S. District Judge John Coughenour reinstated a 22-year sentence, saying he could not ignore Ressam's cooperation in the first years of his incarceration...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).