DALLAS (AP) — A 20-year-old Jordanian man caught in an FBI sting trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper was depressed and slept by his mother's grave after her death from cancer four years ago, his father testified Monday during his son's sentencing hearing.
Hosam Smadi faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty in May to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Under a plea agreement, however, he will likely receive a 30-year sentence and face deportation.
The hearing was expected to continue Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn at the federal courthouse in Dallas, just blocks away from the 60-story office tower that prosecutors allege Smadi tried to …
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