(AP) A 17-year sentence for a New York City man who sought to aid the Islamic State group by trying to kill an FBI agent is “shockingly low,” a federal appeals court said Friday as it ordered a judge to re-sentence him.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ordered a new outcome in Brooklyn federal court for Fareed Mumuni, saying sentencing guidelines that recommended an 85-year prison term for him reflect the judgment by Congress that “terrorism is different from other crimes.”
In a partial dissent, one of the three judges on the appeal panel said it would be fine if Mumuni received the same sentence again if the judge better explained the reasoning behind it.
