MIAMI, May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. prosecutors finally won convictions Tuesday of five of the Liberty City Six, in their third trial on charges of planning to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower.A federal court jury in Miami reached its verdict after lengthy deliberations, which had to be restarted twice because of jurors being replaced, The Miami Herald reported. Two previous trials ended in hung juries.
One defendant, Naudimar Herrera, 25, was acquitted. He said the other defendants are also innocent.
The jury convicted five of the so-called the Liberty City Six - ringleader Narseal Batiste, 35, along with Patrick Abraham, 29; Stanley Grant Phanor, 33; Rotschild Augustine.
After two previous mistrials, a federal jury Tuesday finally reached verdicts in the terrorism case of six Miami men charged with conspiring with al Qaeda -- convicting five and acquitting one.
MIAMI -- It took three trials, three juries and nearly three years, but federal prosecutors finally succeeded Tuesday in convicting five Miami men of plotting to start.
Ringleader Batiste faces 70 years and Stanley Phanor 30 years Five men have been convicted in Miami of plotting to blow up the Sears tower in Chicago and carry out attacks on FBI offices across the United States.
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