The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday in Washington, D.C., it will not consider an appeal of the prison sentence of an arsonist who pleaded guilty to torching a Medford timber company office.
Kendall Tankersley, 31, of Arizona pleaded guilty in 2006 to arson and attempted arson of a U.S. Forest Industries Inc. office on Whittle Avenue in Medford in December 1998. She appealed her 41-month sentence. The blaze caused damage estimated at $500,000.
She argued her sentence was excessive because she was one of the least culpable of those arrested.
Tankersley and nine others were convicted in federal court in Eugene of a conspiracy involving 20 arsons in five Western states from 1996 through 2001 which authorities estimated caused some $27.8 million in damage.
Some were linked to the Earth Liberation Front while others were believed to be part of the Animal Liberation Front.
source: http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090609/NEWS/906090308
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