Hijacker returns from Cuba after 30 years

[philip964]

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After 30 years in Cuba a hijacker who hid a gun in a leg cast and hijacked a plane to Cuba has returned home. He is a Black Panther and is hoping for a pardon from the President.

I guess life in Cuba didn't work out for him.

Maybe he should stay in jail until I stop being x-rayed at the airport.

[texanjoker]

Wow - he must have risked jail time so he can come back and get obama care.

I wonder what the statue of limitations is for his crime? Do the crime do the time

[ELB]

Wow - he must have risked jail time so he can come back and get obama care.

He probably also wanted his free phone.

I wonder what the statue of limitations is for his crime? ...

Since the FBI took him into custody, I guess the answer is "not yet." Cuba put him in clink for 13 years, I wonder it that will be credited to any US prison term?

He applied for his pardon too early -- it was still Obama's first term. In about three years, I expect to see a whole bunch of pardons for old Black Panthers, new ones, Weathermen and their grandchildren, etc.

[philip964]

Wow - he must have risked jail time so he can come back and get obama care.

He probably also wanted his free phone.

I wonder what the statue of limitations is for his crime? ...

Since the FBI took him into custody, I guess the answer is "not yet." Cuba put him in clink for 13 years, I wonder it that will be credited to any US prison term?

He applied for his pardon too early -- it was still Obama's first term. In about three years, I expect to see a whole bunch of pardons for old Black Panthers, new ones, Weathermen and their grandchildren, etc.

I suspect if you are indicted, but have flown to a country without extradition to the US the statute of limitations is frozen till you return. That would only seem fair.

Seems if you were living in an island paradise, you would not risk jail to return to nasty old America that you hated so much. They just don't make hard line communist/radicals like they used to.

[VoiceofReason]

He said he expected the United States to take into consideration his time in a Cuban prison.

"I committed a crime, paid my dues and that's it," he said.

Oh really! "Others have returned home to face long prison terms or died."

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer is he?

[ELB]

No bail.

[03Lightningrocks]

I bet at some point he is pardoned by Obama. They will wait for a bit but he will be free before Obama is done.

[Jaguar]

I bet at some point he is pardoned by Obama. They will wait for a bit but he will be free before Obama is done.

A brick of .22 says he won't be pardoned. I just cannot believe even Obama would pardon a hijacker.

We'll settle up January 20, 2017.