Judge sentences 4 defendants in US terrorism and kidnapping case to life in prison, appeals planned
A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced four family members to life in prison for convictions stemming from a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that began in 2017 with the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia and was later found dead when authorities raided a squalid compound in northern New Mexico.
The sentencing comes months after jurors convicted the four defendants in what prosecutors had called a “sick end-of-times scheme.”
The defendants were unsuccessful in their arguments that the severity of the sentences violated their constitutional rights. That will be just one of the arguments.
