(Chicago Sun-Times) A man who plotted to detonate a massive car bomb outside a Chicago bar has been resentenced to 27 years in prison after a federal appeals [court] found his initial sentence too lenient.
Adel Daoud was handed the new prison term on Friday at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse more than three years after the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that his initial 16-year sentence “fell outside the range of reasonable sentences” and removed the judge in the case.
The three-judge appeals panel said that U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman had “downplayed the extreme seriousness” of the government’s terrorism case against Daoud and had given “short shrift” to the need to protect the public.
