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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKansas Mosque Bomber's Attorney Asks for Leniency Because Bomber Listened to Trump.
from: The Washington Post
Attorneys representing a Kansas man convicted of a 2016 plot to massacre Somali Muslim refugees by bombing a mosque and apartment complex in Garden City, Kan., have asked a federal judge to consider a more lenient sentence, arguing that President Trumps inflammatory rhetoric should be taken into account as the backdrop for the case.
Patrick Eugene Stein faces life in prison for conspiring with two other men to carry out the attack, which was supposed to take place on the day after the 2016 presidential election. On Monday, his attorneys filed a memo in U.S. District Court in the District of Kansas, requesting that Stein receive a sentence of no more than 15 years. They note that Stein was an early and avid supporter of Trump, and argue that the climate in the months leading up to the 2016 election should be taken in account when evaluating the comments prosecutors used to build their case ..
During the trial in the spring, prosecutors played back recordings in which Stein described Muslim immigrants as cockroaches that needed to be exterminated, and talked about killing Muslims with weapons dipped in pigs' blood. Two months before the conversation took place, The Washington Posts Abigail Hauslohner noted, Trump had referenced a questionable tale about Gen. John J. Pershing killing Muslims with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.
"The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful and contentious presidential elections in modern history, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president, James Pratt and Michael Shultz, Steins defense attorneys, wrote in their sentencing memo, as HuffPost first reported.
Patrick Eugene Stein faces life in prison for conspiring with two other men to carry out the attack, which was supposed to take place on the day after the 2016 presidential election. On Monday, his attorneys filed a memo in U.S. District Court in the District of Kansas, requesting that Stein receive a sentence of no more than 15 years. They note that Stein was an early and avid supporter of Trump, and argue that the climate in the months leading up to the 2016 election should be taken in account when evaluating the comments prosecutors used to build their case ..
During the trial in the spring, prosecutors played back recordings in which Stein described Muslim immigrants as cockroaches that needed to be exterminated, and talked about killing Muslims with weapons dipped in pigs' blood. Two months before the conversation took place, The Washington Posts Abigail Hauslohner noted, Trump had referenced a questionable tale about Gen. John J. Pershing killing Muslims with bullets dipped in pigs' blood.
"The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful and contentious presidential elections in modern history, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president, James Pratt and Michael Shultz, Steins defense attorneys, wrote in their sentencing memo, as HuffPost first reported.
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Kansas Mosque Bomber's Attorney Asks for Leniency Because Bomber Listened to Trump. (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2018
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That defense didn't go over in the Nuremburg trials. No reason this should be any different.
Crunchy Frog
Oct 2018
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Vinca
(50,273 posts)1. "I'm a terrorist because Trump told me to be" defense. Who's surprised?
The KKKult members aren't quite so brave when faced with prison.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)2. That defense didn't go over in the Nuremburg trials. No reason this should be any different.