(Sacramento Bee) Hamid Hayat is free, released Friday afternoon from Arizona federal custody nearly two weeks after a Sacramento federal judge threw out his 2006 conviction.
Hayat was released about 2 p.m. PDT Friday, Hayat’s attorney Dennis Riordan said.
“It’s been a good day,” Riordan said hours after his client’s release and at the end of the whirlwind of court filings and machinations that led to the Lodi man’s release.
The Lodi cherry picker was imprisoned for 14 years of a 24-year prison term in a remote Arizona prison. He was accused of plotting an attack on the United States after attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
