Judge postpones sentence for 'underwear bomber' Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Photographer: WXYZ
Posted: 01/06/2012
DETROIT (AP) - A judge has postponed the sentencing of a Nigerian man who admits he tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will now get his mandatory life sentence on Feb. 16.
Federal Judge Nancy Edmunds said Friday that a Jan. 19 hearing will still take place so passengers who already had planned to attend can speak to Abdulmutallab in court that day.
The postponement gives Abdulmutallab more time to review a mandatory pre-sentence report prepared by the U.S. Probation Department.
He pleaded guilty in October to trying to blow up an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight on Christmas 2009.
Abdulmutallab is acting as his own lawyer. The judge denied his request to grant him a new attorney to advise him.
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