‘Underwear Bomber’ To Be Sentenced

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“Underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will be sentenced on Thursday for attempting to blow up a plane on Christmas day of 2009. Abdulmatallab pled guilty back in October. 

Abdulmatallab’s lawyer Anthony Chambers has submitted motions arguing that a mandatory minimum life sentence is unconstitutional, while the federal governement has continued pushing for a life sentence.

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