7th Circuit decision will again delay trial over 2016 Milwaukee mass shooting plot
Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a judge's ruling that blocked prosecutors from using certain evidence against a man they say once plotted a mass shooting in Milwaukee.
Samy Hamzeh, 28, of Milwaukee, was arrested five years ago in what the FBI heralded as a thwarted terrorist attack — a shooting at the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center in downtown Milwaukee.
On Wednesday, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Pepper had abused her discretion in finding so much of what the government wants to introduce at trial as irrelevant and sent the issues back for her to decide if it should still be barred for other reasons.