Appeals court vacates 16-year sentence in Loop bar terror plot, says judge paid only ‘lip service’ to seriousness of Adel Daoud’s crimes

A federal appeals court has thrown out the 16-year prison sentence for a suburban Chicago man convicted in a terrorist bombing plot, saying the judge paid only “lip service” to the seriousness of the crime and overplayed the defendant’s immaturity at the time the FBI caught him in the sting.

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