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DETROIT, MI (AP) The Michigan Appeals Court has affirmed the conviction of a man who was charged under an anti-terrorism law. Wilson Byczek uttered what was deemed to be a threat to the Iron County sheriff s office in 2017. He was suing a local resort over a workplace injury and said if he didn t get money, it was “going to be hashtag Las Vegas.” A mass shooting in Las Vegas had occurred days earlier. Byczek was convicted of making a terrorist threat and sentenced to seven years in prison. The appeals court upheld the conviction, although one judge said the result is not what the Legislature intended when it passed a law after 9/11. ....
Michigan court: Call to UP police was a terrorist threat file photo and last updated 2021-05-09 07:55:49-04 (AP) â The Michigan appeals court has affirmed the conviction of a man who was charged under an anti-terrorism law. Wilson Byczek uttered what was deemed to be a threat to the Iron County sheriff s office in the Upper Peninsula in 2017. Byczek was suing a local resort over a workplace injury and said if he didn t get money âit was going to be hashtag Las Vegas.â A mass shooting in Las Vegas had occurred days earlier. Byczek was convicted of making a terrorist threat and sentenced to seven years in prison. ....
WILSON BYCZEK DETROIT (AP) The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a man who was charged under an anti-terrorism law when he called the Iron County Sheriff’s Office in 2017 and said it was going to be “hashtag Las Vegas” if he didn’t get money for a workplace injury, just days after that city experienced the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. One member of the three-judge panel wrote a lengthy dissent, however, arguing that the charge against Wilson Byczek wasn’t what the Legislature intended when it passed an anti-terrorism law in response to the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago. ....
Ed White DETROIT The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a man who was charged under an anti-terrorism law when he called a sheriff’s office and said it was going to be “hashtag Las Vegas” if he didn’t get money for a workplace injury, just days after that city experienced the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. One member of the three-judge panel wrote a lengthy dissent, however, arguing that the charge against Wilson Byczek wasn’t what the Legislature intended when it passed an anti-terrorism law in response to the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago. ....
ED WHITE DETROIT The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a man who was charged under an anti-terrorism law when he called a sheriff’s office and said it was going to be “hashtag Las Vegas” if he didn’t get money for a workplace injury, just days after that city experienced the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. One member of the three-judge panel wrote a lengthy dissent, however, arguing that the charge against Wilson Byczek wasn’t what the Legislature intended when it passed an anti-terrorism law in response to the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago. ....