Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update: Chesser Gets 25 Years

* in a news item that's hitting the wires without the "danish cartoons" phrasing, we learn that Zachary Chesser was sentenced to 25 years on three charges, including threats to the South Park creators, threats to participants in Everybody Draw Mohammad Day, and support to terrorist organizations. The South Park and Everybody Draw Mohammad Day expressions can be traced back to the Danish Cartoons Controversy; they are subsequent expressions made possible and controversial by that original one. Chesser had previously pleaded guilty to the charges, and the final sentence was split down the middle of what prosecutors and defense attorneys argued was appropriate.

* a man believed to mastermind an attempt over the holiday to shot up the Jyllands-Posten offices that published the original Danish Cartoons will stay in Sweden, according a decision reached in Stockholm earlier today. Formal extradition filings are expected to begin as soon as possible. The other three suspects are being held in Denmark.
 
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