(CN) — Four people accused of abducting a three-year-old-boy and performing exorcisms on him until he died in the New Mexico high desert asked a 10th Circuit panel to vacate their life sentences because, among other things, the abduction was not legally kidnapping.
“Just because somebody uses the term in its loose definition does not make it so,” defense attorney Katayoun Donnelly told the three-judge panel in a Denver courtroom Thursday morning. “The government wants to keep Hujrah Wahhaj in prison for the rest of her life for consensually accompanying her brother who lawfully and voluntarily took his own son across state lines.”
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