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Former GTMO detainee gets LWOP federal sentence despite jury acquittal on hundreds of counts

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this CBS News report, which is headlined "Ghailani Gets Life Sentence for Embassy Plot," a high-profile defendants high-profile acquittal on lots and lots of charges did not do him much good at sentencing in federal court today. Here are the details: The first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court has been sentenced to life in prison. A federal judge in Manhattan imposed the term Tuesday on 36-year-old Ahmed Ghailani of Tanzania. Ghailani was acquitted late last year of more than 200 counts of murder and dozens of other charges related to an al Qaeda attack in 1998 on U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.  The jury convicted him of a single count of conspiring to destroy government buildings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).