(Chicago Sun-Times) Federal prosecutors view Adel Daoud as a once-aspiring terrorist who, when given the opportunity to act on his beliefs, tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar.
Daoud’s defense attorney says the U.S. government coaxed a naive, impressionable teenager into trying to commit an act he otherwise would not have attempted.
Those differences, laid out in dueling memos filed Friday in U.S. District Court, set up a contentious, possibly weeklong sentencing hearing set to start Monday.
Prosecutors in their sentencing memo asked for a 40-year sentence for Daoud. The document filed by Daoud’s attorney argues he should be released as soon as 2021.
