Viktor Bout's Sentencing Postponed Again, Until April 5

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Viktor Bout's Sentencing Postponed Again, Until April 5

NEW YORK: -- A New York court has again postponed the sentencing of convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout until April 5, on a request from his defense team, Vesti.ru said.

This is the third sentencing delay for Bout. The sentencing was initially scheduled for February 8, then for March 12 and was subsequently rescheduled for March 28.

Bout, who has denied all charges against him, faces from 25 years to life in prison.

The 45-year-old former Russian military officer, known as the Merchant of Death, was arrested in Thailand in March 2008 during a sting operation led by U.S. agents and extradited to the United States in November 2010 after spending more than two and half years in Thai prisons.

On November 2 last year, the jury of the Federal District Court of New York unanimously found Bout guilty of conspiring to kill U.S. officials and citizens, of acquiring and intending to use anti-aircraft missiles and providing support to terrorists.

Source: http://en.rian.ru/ru.../172312771.html

-- RIA NOVOSTI 2012-03-22

[Thighlander]

He'll get to play with the same tennis ball that Ted Klyscinski plays with, in the same cage, for 30 minutes per day. Denver Supermax--count on it.

[kerryk]

Anyone with any education or historical knowledge or a British grandmother knows Sir Basil Zaharoff was the Merchant of Death. Bout at best should be called mini merchant of Death or Merchant of Death Two. Or a cheap Russian copy of the real Merchant of Death who, of course worked for a fine British company, Vickers and sold that great American product, The Maxim machine gun.

[redroo]

what a bunch of hypocrites