(AP) A judge has refused to reduce the 30-year prison sentence for an Arizona man convicted of helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas, even though one of his convictions was dismissed after it was discovered the FBI had withheld surveillance video at his trial.
Attorneys for Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who was resentenced Tuesday in response to the dismissal of the charge, had asked for a 7 1/2-year prison term. But U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton declined to shave any time off his sentence for his convictions related to the attack on the anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas.
Kareem, an American-born Muslim convert, was convicted of conspiring to provide the guns used in the attack carried out by two friends and conspiring with both friends to provide support to the Islamic State terror group.
