U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Aug. 4, 2011
Panel to rethink Millennium Bomber's sentence
The 9th Circuit on Tuesday voted to rethink an earlier decision over the sentence handed to the Millennium Bomber Ahmed Ressam, who plotted to detonate high explosives at Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 31, 1999.
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The 9th Circuit on Tuesday voted to rethink an earlier decision over the sentence handed to the Millennium Bomber Ahmed Ressam, who plotted to detonate high explosives at Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 31, 1999.
In 2010, a three-judge panel voted 2-1 that a 22-year sentence handed Ressam by a district judge in Seattle was too short. The dissent contended that the district judge's decision, based in part on consider...
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