Lawyers for Sudbury's Tarek Mehanna Vow Appeal of Guilty Verdict [Poll]

Sentencing for 29-year old Sudbury man Tarek Mehanna reportedly is scheduled for April 12 after a jury Tuesday found him guilty on terror-related charges.

The Boston Globe says he faces possible life in prison.

WCVB-TV says his defense is expected to argue in appeal that the jury was scared by repeated and irrelvant references to Osama bin Laden and the Sept. 11 attacks.

“It’s an incredibly sad day for us,” WBUR quotes said defense attorney Janice Bassil as saying. “It should be a sad day for all of you. It is a sad day for civil rights. It’s a sad day for the First Amendment.”

WCVB quotes Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz as saying, "The heart of the case is really this: Did Mr. Mehanna conspire to support terrorists, conspire to kill in a foreign country and then did he lie to federal investigators?" said Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz. "Today a jury of his peers concluded that he did that."

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