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Convicted terrorism supporter gets 17-year sentence (CNN)
Kinda light for what we are told he was aiming to do, yeah?
Some considerations & highlights from the story...
Personally, I don't see the connection between being treated "harshly" in prison and getting a lighter sentence.
Guess the feds mess this one up real good. (or please do correct me if the CNN has unfair biases)
Kinda light for what we are told he was aiming to do, yeah?
Some considerations & highlights from the story...
"I do find that the conditions were so harsh for Mr. Padilla ... they warrant consideration in the sentencing in this case," the judge [Marcia Cooke] said.
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But Cooke said that as serious as the conspiracy was, there was no evidence linking the men to specific acts of terrorism anywhere.
"There is no evidence that these defendants personally maimed, kidnapped or killed anyone in the United States or elsewhere," she said.
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Jurors in the criminal case never heard Padilla's full history, which according to U.S. officials included a graduation from the al Qaeda terror camp, a plot to detonate the "dirty bomb" and a scheme to fill apartments with natural gas and blow them up. Much of what Padilla supposedly told interrogators during his long detention as an enemy combatant could not be used in court because he had no access to a lawyer and was not read his constitutional rights.
Personally, I don't see the connection between being treated "harshly" in prison and getting a lighter sentence.
Guess the feds mess this one up real good. (or please do correct me if the CNN has unfair biases)