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.
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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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