The traitor Billy Cottrell has conviction overturned

Below is an article about the American traitor and coward, William "Billy" Cottrell who at his trial told lies against two innocent people to try and lesson the fact he'd firebombed some SUVs.

As you'll see, "Billy the Snitch" has had his arson conviction overturned. ELP warns everyone, if this guy tries to get back into the movement avoid him like the plauge. He is a traitor and coward and he will make up lies about anyone.


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/suv-bombers-arson-convictions-overturned-sentence-vacated.html

Caltech student's arson convictions are overturned in SUV bombings; sentence is vacated by appeals court

September 10, 2009
A Caltech graduate student convicted of conspiracy and arson four years
ago for the firebombing of SUVs in the San Gabriel Valley has had his
arson convictions overturned and his sentence vacated by a federal
appeals court panel.

William Cottrell, 29, has already served about two-thirds of his
100-month sentence for the alleged eco-terrorism in 2003 in which 125
SUVs and Hummers were destroyed or damaged by spray-painted graffiti,
smashed windows and Molotov cocktails.

It was unclear whether the unpublished decision by the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals panel would mean his release from a federal
prison in Arizona.

The three-judge panel in February had upheld Cottrell's 2005 convictions on
conspiracy and seven counts of arson and the 100-month sentence he was
given. But in an unpublished opinion released Tuesday, the panel "amended" its February ruling. The judges said the trial court's exclusion of expert testimony about Cottrell's affliction with Asperger's syndrome denied him an opportunity to demonstrate that he couldn't have had specific intent in aiding and abetting the
destruction.

Cottrell's defense attorneys, Marvin Rudnick and Michael Mayock, said they didn't know whether their client would be released pending unspecified "further proceedings" ordered by the
panel. They speculated that the U.S. attorney's office might decline to
retry Cottrell on the arson charges because he has already served most
of his term.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office, Thom Mrozek, said the
government was reviewing the decision and would announce its position
when the matter returns to U.S. District Court.

Cottrell was described by professors and colleagues who testified at
his trial as brilliant but erratic. Asperger's syndrome is a form of
autism that impairs the ability to interact with others or to
understand facial _expressions and body language.