An
appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to
trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb in his underwear.
Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab admitted he was outfitted with a bomb on behalf of
al-Qaida.
But he still appealed his guilty plea, claiming a Detroit federal
judge made a series of improper decisions.
In a 3-0
decision Monday, an appeals court affirmed the conviction and life sentence.
The Cincinnati-based court says the judge did nothing wrong in declining to
order a mental health exam.
The court
says the complexity of Abdulmutallab’s plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines
flight on Christmas 2009 shows he was competent to stand trial.
Abdulmutallab’s explosive caused a fire but didn’t destroy the plane.
Abdulmutallab’s explosive caused a fire but didn’t destroy the plane.
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