Leader in Michigan governor kidnapping plot spared life sentence, gets 16 years
in what the government has described as one of the biggest domestic terrorism cases in recent American history.
"he Government in its memorandum employs exaggerated language to create the false narrative of a terrifying paramilitary leader," Gibbons argued in court documents."Adam Fox is described as creating an army with a cadre of operators… These histrionic descriptions of Adam Fox do not rationally address his actual conduct and they do not accurately reflect either his actual intentions or his actual capabilities.
"This was no 'run of the mill' kidnapping plot," Kessler argued in court documents."He targeted not just any victim, but an official victim; and not just any official, but the head of a state. He was no follower; he was an active recruiter and prime mover."
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