Fed. court orders resentencing in Arkansas bombing

By Jeannie Nuss

Published December 6, 2012 9:27pm ET

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Fed. court orders resentencing in Arkansas bombing — File - This file photo released Aug. 18, 2009, by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office shows Dr. Randeep Mann. Mann, who was sentenced to life in prison for a 2009 bombing that nearly killed the head of the state medical board should be re-sentenced on some convictions, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. A jury convicted Mann, 54, in 2010 of conspiring ot use a weapon of mass destruction and other charges in the Feb. 4, 2009, attack on Dr. Trent Pierce. (AP Photo/Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, file) | Anonymous

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas doctor sentenced to life in prison for a 2009 bombing that nearly killed the head of the state medical board should be resentenced on some convictions, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

A jury convicted Randeep Mann, 54, in 2010 of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and other charges. The Feb. 4, 2009, bomb attack took away Dr. Trent Pierce’s sense of smell and left him blind in one eye and deaf in one ear.

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