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A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out the sentence of a man who was convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at the millennium.
Ahmed Ressam was arrested near the U.S.-Canadian border in December 1999 after customs agents found explosives in his car. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted on nine charges.
On Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reversed his conviction on one of the charges and sent the case back to a lower court to issue a new sentence.
The decision does not necessarily mean Ressam will get a shorter term.
