No Sentence Reduction For Man Convicted In 2015 Prophet Muhammad Cartoon Contest Attack In Garland

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

October 20, 2021

A judge has refused to reduce the 30-year prison sentence for an Arizona man convicted of helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas even though one of his convictions was dismissed after it was discovered the FBI had withheld surveillance video at his trial.

Attorneys for Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who was resentenced Tuesday, Oct. 19 in response to the dismissal of the charge, had asked for a 7½-year prison term.

But U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton declined to shave any time off his sentence for his convictions related to the attack on the anti-Islam event.

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