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Home Front: WoT
Appeals court vacates sentence of 'millennium bomber' Ressam
2007-01-17
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. Circus 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.
You can always count on the 9th Circus.
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.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Um...Joe...if America is illegal according to the 9th Circus, how can it be "unConstitutional" since, by definition, that document is illegal...?

I'm confused...

Regardless, the 9th Circus ought to be impeached and the membership locked up as the treasonous SOBs that they have continuously proven themselves to be.

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-01-17 19:11  

#5  Nail Ressam's feet and hands to the side of a barn in Kansas. Nail the judges on either side of him. Anyone that survives a full year gets a pension for life. Oh, and NOBODY can come within 50 feet of them, for the entire year. God will take care of them, one way or another.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-01-17 15:18  

#4  Close Frank. I was thinking 500.

Question, why is this prick still even alive?!
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-01-17 14:36  

#3  go for 50 years on the retrial
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-17 08:38  

#2  Gee Joe, that's almost readable.
Posted by: Skidmark   2007-01-17 06:57  

#1  America is an illegal and unconstitutional nation as per the Ninth, ergo America can't prosecute, defend, litigate, advocate nor sentence anyone, etal. D***ng it. Thus Radical Islam is innocent no matter how many fatwas of war-violence agz America = Amerika is made. Everything = Anything = Nothing that America does = decides during this WOT is legal. SNIFF, SNIFF, DON'T YA JUST LOVE "LEGAL CERTAINTY".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-01-17 04:11  

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