‘Terrorism’ Sentencing Enhancement OK’d 
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Published: April 10, 2012
Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Criminal, Judge Robert B. King
After twice vacating and remanding defendant’s sentencing enhancement on his conviction of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, the 4th Circuit on the third go-round upholds defendant’s 180-month sentence, including the federal guidelines’ enhancement for the “federal crime of terrorism.”
Pakistani national Ali Asad Chandia’s convictions resulted from a government investigation of a terrorist support ...
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