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Kidnapping Is Not A 'Violent Felony': Appeals Court Voids Two More Whitmer Plot Convictions
['Tyler Durden']
Zero Hedge
Michigan's Anti-Terrorism Act defines an act of terrorism as conduct that would constitute a violent felony under state law.
Kidnapping, the judges held, is not a violent felony as that term is defined.
So kidnapping cannot serve as the predicate act for a material-support conviction - no matter what the defendants did or intended.
Both men had also been convicted of committing a felony motivated by gang membership and of possessing a firearm during a felony.
"Now, that broken precedent has legally bound this Court of Appeals panel to reverse the convictions of two more dangerous criminals."