BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys are seeking a 15-year prison sentence for a Rhode Island man who admitted to participating in a plot to behead a conservative blogger on behalf of the Islamic State group.
Blogger Pamela Geller arrives Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, at federal court in Boston for the sentencing hearing for David Wright, convicted of leading an Islamic State group-inspired plot to behead Geller. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)
Nicholas Rovinski, of Warwick, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Boston. Rovinski pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy for his role in a plot to kill New York resident Pamela Geller, who organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, in 2015.
Rovinski’s sentencing comes a day after 28-year-old David Wright, of Everett, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 28 years in prison. A jury convicted Wright in October after Rovinski testified against him.
Prosecutors say Wright was the “mastermind” of the Islamic State-inspired plot.
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