Convicted 'Eco-Terrorist' Released From Prison After Discovery Of 'Thousands Of Pages' Evidence Withheld By The FBI

from the Build-your-own-terrorist!-Instructions-not-included! dept

Ladies and gentlemen: your Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Ladies and gentlemen: your Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Eric McDavid was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for alleged eco-terrorism, becoming the first person ever indicted for ELF (Earth Liberation Front)-related charges. WAS. He's now free to continue his interrupted life, thanks to the FBI's dishonesty.

Then, the government changed its mind, conceding that thousands of pages of evidence that should have been given to McDavid's defense attorney years ago – including love notes to a young woman who turned out to be an FBI plant – had instead been secretly held in an FBI file in Sacramento until recently. The best course of action, the government ultimately decided, was to set McDavid free.

"I've never heard or seen of anything like this," said U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr., who originally sentenced McDavid. The judge ordered him released in accord with an unusual agreement between prosecutors and his appellate attorneys.

The judge demanded answers from the prosecution as to how this could have happened.

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