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Attorneys for Oregon bomb plot defendant argue for new trial
Source: Reuters
Attorneys for Oregon bomb plot defendant argue for new trial
BY TERESA CARSON
PORTLAND Ore. Wed Jun 4, 2014 7:41pm EDT
(Reuters) - Attorneys for a Somali-American man convicted of trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Oregon argued for a new trial on Wednesday, telling a judge the former college student's constitutional rights were violated by warrantless surveillance.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who was arrested in a sting operation involving fake explosives when he was 19, tried to use his cell phone in 2010 to remotely detonate an artificial car bomb planted near a Portland square crowded with people.
He was convicted last year of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Authorities said the public was never in any real danger from the plot, which involved FBI agents posing as Islamist militants.
Lawyers for the former Oregon State University student argued in federal court in Portland on Wednesday that authorities violated Mohamud's constitutional rights by obtaining information from his electronic communications with foreign citizens whom the federal government had placed under surveillance without a warrant.
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BY TERESA CARSON
PORTLAND Ore. Wed Jun 4, 2014 7:41pm EDT
(Reuters) - Attorneys for a Somali-American man convicted of trying to blow up a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony in Oregon argued for a new trial on Wednesday, telling a judge the former college student's constitutional rights were violated by warrantless surveillance.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who was arrested in a sting operation involving fake explosives when he was 19, tried to use his cell phone in 2010 to remotely detonate an artificial car bomb planted near a Portland square crowded with people.
He was convicted last year of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Authorities said the public was never in any real danger from the plot, which involved FBI agents posing as Islamist militants.
Lawyers for the former Oregon State University student argued in federal court in Portland on Wednesday that authorities violated Mohamud's constitutional rights by obtaining information from his electronic communications with foreign citizens whom the federal government had placed under surveillance without a warrant.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/04/us-usa-bombplot-oregon-idUSKBN0EF2IC20140604
