Ohio supporter of ISIS pleads guilty in attempted attack on Jewish synagogue
Updated May 18, 2021;
CLEVELAND, Ohio A Northwest Ohio resident admitted Tuesday that he planned to carry out a mass shooting at a synagogue to show his allegiance to ISIS.
Damon Joseph, 23, of Holland pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Toledo to charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization and attempting to commit a hate crime. He faces 20 years in prison when Judge Jack Zouhary sentences him Sept. 14.
Authorities arrested Joseph on Dec. 7, 2018, moments after he grabbed a duffel bag that contained two semi-automatic rifles from an undercover FBI agent’s car. Unbeknownst to Joseph, agents disabled the weapons.
Charged with a federal crime? Don’t start packing bags for beach resort vacation
Federal judges are hesitant to grant defendant requests for vacations outside the U.S. But as two recent cases involving Texans show, it does occasionally happen.
Cabo San Lucas, México. A federal judge in Dallas recently granted a defendant s request to travel to this popular resort with his wife to celebrate his 57th birthday. But that is a rarity in federal court, according to experts.(Agencia Reforma)
When people are charged with federal crimes, they tend to lay low and save money for legal fees and other expenses, attorneys say.
Doug Neckers
Civics education, I’m told by experienced jurists like former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Jack Zouhary, a federal judge in Toledo, is in the dumpster in public schools.
Citizens including a new US Senator graduate without knowing the branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial), the difference between the U.S. Senate and the state Senate, or which came first the U.S. Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Justice O’Connor, who went to school in Texas, said she got sick of hearing about Stephen F. Austin, but she still listened intensely.
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