Appeals Court Panel: Jose Padilla’s 17 Year Sentence Too Lenient | Talking Points Memo

Jose Padilla, convicted in 2007 of providing support for terrorists, saw his 17-year sentence tossed on Monday because an appeals court thought it wasn’t severe enough.Padilla was first arrested in 2002 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for allegedly plotting a “dirty bomb” attack against the U.S. He was held as an “enemy combatant” in a military brig for over three years before he was moved into the federal court system, but was never charged with the “dirty bomb” plot.


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