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malaise

(269,157 posts) Tue Apr 16, 2019, 12:19 PM Apr 2019

August Sentencing Date Set for Florida Man Who Mailed Bombs to Critics of President Trump

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/August-Sentencing-Date-Set-for-Florida-Man-Who-Mailed-Bombs-to-Critics-of-President-Trump-508632831.html
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A Florida man who pleaded guilty to sending pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump will be sentenced in August rather than September, a judge said Monday.

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff set the Aug. 5 date to determine the penalty for Cesar Sayoc after his lawyer, Sarah Jane Baumgartel, said Sayoc was anxious about the sentencing.

Sayoc, 57, could face life in prison for spreading terror in the days leading up to the midterm election last year. One charge carries a mandatory 10-year prison sentence.

His March guilty plea to explosives charges was a deal with prosecutors that eliminated a charge that would have carried a mandatory life prison sentence. Sentencing was originally set for Sept. 12.