Ex-Candidate Convicted of Mosque Attack Plan Has Sentence Upheld

A one-time congressional candidate lost a challenge to his 10-year prison sentence for planning to burn down an upstate New York mosque over its imaginary connections to terrorism, when a federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled Wednesday that he was, in fact, the terrorist.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed Robert R. Doggart’s 120-month sentence for “solicitation to destroy religious property,” upholding a decision by the sentencing judge to apply a “discretionary departure” upward for crimes reflecting terrorism-like motivations.

Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, writing for the court, said the judge reasonably imposed the maximum sentence ...