[20200116]LSB10394_试图杀死一名FBI探员：句子太低.pdf

CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Trying to Kill An FBI Agent: Sentence Too Low January 16, 2020 The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Second Circuit) on December 27, 2019, rejected as “shockingly low” a seventeen-year prison term imposed on a terrorist who attempted to kill an FBI agent. The defendant in United States v. Mumuni faced an eighty-five-year term under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. One member of the three-judge panel dissented in part because he did not believe that the sentence was so “shockingly low” as to require resentencing. Background Fareed Mumuni met Munther Omar Saleh, his co-defendant, through a college Islamic society. Saleh described himself as a “full-fledged member of ISIS with a radicalizing gift.” The two accompanied Nader Saadeh, their co-conspirator, when Saadeh purchased hiking boots and a compass in anticipation of Saadehs trip to Syria to join ISIS. After his arrest, Mumuni said he had checked out flights to Turkey from New York and had begun to raise money for the trip to join ISIS. He also indicated at the time after his arrest that he planned to kill any offi