SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The family of a man who admitted to planting a bomb at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade is asking a federal judge to issue a lenient sentence.
The family of 37-year-old Kevin W. Harpham described him in letters to the judge as a gentle, intelligent, well-liked young man whose actions puzzled them.
The letters are part of a package presented to the court by Harpham’s defense attorneys in advance of his Nov. 30 sentencing, where he faces a range of 27 to 32 years in federal prison
Harpham pleaded guilty in September to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to injure people in a hate crime.
