This is good to see. Wright should have been given life in prison. He will get out before his 28-year sentence is up. His jihadi beliefs won’t be weakened, but strengthened while he is incarcerated, thanks to a prison system that allows him to meet with and pray with other Muslim inmates, and treats the Qur’an that incited him to murder over cartoons with the utmost respect. While he is in prison, he may also recruit or inspire others to murder Pamela Geller or others who stand for the freedom of speech against jihad and Sharia oppression. Wright is a dangerous man; the sentence he received is consistent with a justice system that does not recognize the danger that he and others like him present.
“US Supreme Court refuses to review Everett man’s terrorism-related convictions,” by John R. Ellement, Boston Globe, March 4, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):
The US Supreme Court won’t hear David Daoud Wright’s challenge to the terrorism-related convictions stemming from his leadership of two men who plotted to kill Boston police officers in 2015 and political commentator Pamela Geller, whom terror group ISIS had targeted for death.
The justices did not issue a written explanation for their refusal and instead the clerk of the nation’s highest court sent a terse letter to Wright’s attorneys and the lower federal courts in Boston. The appeal request is called a writ of certiorari.
“The Court today entered the following order in the above-entitled case: The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied,” the letter from the US Supreme Court reads. It is dated Monday.
Wright, of Everett, was convicted of leading the small group that included his uncle, Usaamah Rahim, 26, who was shot and killed when he confronted Boston police officers and FBI special agents with a knife in Roslindale in June 2015. Rahim, authorities said, was planning to board a bus and randomly attack victims.
Wright took the stand in his own defense during his trial in US District Court in Boston and said he was only engaging in an “ISIS role-play fantasy” because he was obese and had no social life. He was convicted on five charges, and sentenced to 28 years behind bars. Four of his five convictions were later upheld by the First Circuit Court of Appeals….