District Court, lawyers for Muse recounted his childhood in the Puntland province of Somalia, saying he suffered from hunger and malnutrition as a child and was living on his own and working odd jobs by age 11 or 12. The maximum sentence called for in the deal is just under 34 years. Muse’s lawyers have asked a judge to sentence him to no more than 27 years in prison, the minimum sentence called for in his plea agreement with prosecutors. Navy sharpshooters killed three pirates in a dramatic nighttime rescue that left him untouched. The ship’s captain, Richard Phillips, was held for several days on an enclosed lifeboat until U.S. He pleading guilty last year to hostage-taking and conspiracy after he led a band of four pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama ship on April 8, 2009, as it transported humanitarian supplies about 280 miles (450 kilometres) off the coast of Somalia. Attorney Preet Bharara’s spokeswoman Jessie Irwin declined to comment Wednesday. They said the government erred in translating his conversations to think he was ordering a hit on the captain, who eventually was freed. The lawyers disputed the government’s account of messages Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is accused of sending from his cell at a federal lockup in lower Manhattan to pirates holding the crew of a Taiwanese fishing vessel.
A Somali man who admitted his role in a pirate attack on a U.S.-flagged ship off the coast of Africa was put in extreme isolation after the government claimed he ordered from prison the killing of another ship’s captain, his lawyers said Wednesday as they asked a judge to be lenient on him at sentencing this month. Pirate’s NY lawyers say gov’t claimed he ordered hit on a fishing boat captain from prisonīy Larry Neumeister (CP) –NEW YORK, N.Y. Navy before the standoff ended and later brought to the U.S. Navy SEAL snipers in April 2009, ending a five-day hostage standoff and freeing Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama. Sentencing is scheduled for later this month. His lawyers have asked for the low end of the range, 27 years. Muse faces 27 years to 33 years, nine months in prison under a stipulated sentencing guidelines range. The threat was revealed in a filing seeking leniency in his sentencing.
Muse is no longer subject to the restrictive measures, but remains in solitary confinement at a federal jail in lower Manhattan, his lawyers said. We do acknowledge, however, that Abduwali discussed piracy matters over the phone.” “We believe the government has misinterpreted these calls. “The two prison calls identified by the government do not provide proof of any such threat,” his lawyers said. Muse while in custody corroborated the threat, his lawyers said in court papers. The government determined two phone calls by Mr.
Muse should be held under so-called “special administrative measures” in January 2010 after a probe into whether he had instructed pirate crew members to kill another boat captain. In court papers filed Wednesday, his lawyers said the U.S. NEW YORK-A Somali man who pleaded guilty to hostage-taking last year in the hijacking of a U.S.-flagged ship has been held in isolation for more year after he allegedly ordered from jail that the captain of another ship be killed, according to court documents.Ībduwali Abdukhadir Muse, 21 years old, pleaded guilty last May to hostage-taking and conspiracy in the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean in April 2009.
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