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The Byron White Federal Courthouse, home of the 10th Circuit. (Courthouse News photo / Amanda Pampuro) (CN) — The decades-long sentences of three Kansas men convicted of plotting to blow up a Mosque were affirmed by the 10 th Circuit on Monday. After a jury trial in which the government called 15 witnesses and submitted 500 exhibits and the defense called 10 witnesses and offered 40 exhibits, a federal judge in 2019 sentenced Curtis Allen, 53, and Gavin Wright, 55 — members of the so-called Kansas Security Force militia group — to 25 years each in federal prison for plotting to blow up ...

US Appeals Court Upholds Prison Sentences for Men Who Plotted To Bomb Kansas Somalis A U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions and prison sentences of three men who plotted to bomb a Kansas apartment complex that was home to Somali immigrants and a mosque, rejecting in a ruling on Monday that the FBI had entrapped them. Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, and Patrick Eugene Stein were found guilty by a jury in the Kansas U.S. district court in 2018 of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and violating the civil rights of Muslims living in the Garden City housing complex.

Associated Press photo by: Associated Press This combination of Oct. 14, 2016, file booking photos provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in Wichita, Kan., shows from left, Patrick Stein, Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, three members of a Kansas militia group who were convicted of plotting to bomb a mosque and an apartment building filled with Somali immigrants in Garden City, Kan. (Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office via AP, File) WICHITA (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions and sentences of three militia members facing decades in prison for their roles in a foil...

WICHITA, Kan. — A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions and sentences of three militia members facing decades in prison for their roles in a foiled 2016 plot to massacre Somali Muslims in southwest Kansas. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected all the arguments raised by attorneys for Gavin Wright, Curtis Allen and Patrick Stein. The court was not swayed by claims that the men were entrapped and the method of selecting jurors was flawed. Jurors convicted them in 2018 of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights for a scheme to blow up...

Immigration Restrictions Helped Lead to Martin Luther King Success Immigration Restrictions Helped Lead to Martin Luther King Success By Roy Beck, January 15, 2021 On this day, the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., let’s remember the influence of immigration restriction on the effectiveness of the movement that he epitomizes. At the 1963 March on Washington that included King’s iconic “I have a dream” speech, the lead organizer and head of the event was A. Philip Randolph, one of the greatest civil rights leaders of the 20th century. The president of the Sleeping Car Porte...