Judge who gave Mohamed Jalloh reduced sentence for 2017 terrorism conviction cited 'terrible upbring

[rangerrebew]

 Mar 13, 2026
Judge who gave Mohamed Jalloh reduced sentence for 2017 terrorism conviction cited 'terrible upbringing,' 'good things' Islamic extremist had done
"I think that the ultimate sentence that I hand down should reflect the good things you have done as well as the horrendous things."
 
 
Hannah Nightingale
Washington DC
Mar 13, 2026
 
Mohamed Jalloh has been identified by the FBI as the shooter responsible for killing one and injuring two others at Old Dominion University in Virginia on Thursday. In 2017, Jalloh was sentenced to 11 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization.

Overseeing the case was since-retired Judge Liam O’Grady for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was appointed to the role in 2007 by then-President George W Bush and retired in 2023. At Jalloh’s February 2017 sentencing hearing, O’Grady told the defendant the sentencing decision should "reflect the good things you have done as well as the horrendous things." The federal government sought a 20-year sentence for Jalloh.

O’Grady said before delivering his decision, "You had a terrible upbringing, and you were able to overcome that and come here and become a naturalized citizen, and go to college, and work, and join the National Guard. And then you took a 90-degree turn and radicalized very quickly. And while in Africa you decided to join ISIL [ISIS] and go fight on the front lines against the United States and others, and continued to support them after you decided not to go to the front lines by providing them with money," per a court transcript.

 https://thepostmillennial.com/judge-who-gave-mohamed-jalloh-reduced-sentence-for-2017-terrorism-conviction-cited-terrible-upbringing-good-things-islamic-extremist-had-done

[rangerrebew]

This is a classic example of why judges are supposed to deal with the law and not play amature psychologists.

[catfish1957]

Mar 13, 2026
Judge who gave Mohamed Jalloh reduced sentence for 2017 terrorism conviction cited 'terrible upbringing,' 'good things' Islamic extremist had done

This warped thought could have helped for early  parole of the like of Manson, Dahmer,  etc.  How they say this with a straight face is beyond me.

[Canuck Conservative]

This warped thought could have helped for early  parole of the like of Manson, Dahmer,  etc.

Nope, they're only white guys, so they're SOL

Judges & Big Media only feel sorry for racial, ethnic, and sexual-minority mass murderers ... honky mass murderers get no sympathy

[Free Vulcan]

This is a classic example of why judges are supposed to deal with the law and not play amature psychologists.

And not try to pass it off as psychology when it's really Marxist ideology.