Richard Mathews was convicted in 1993 of planting pipe bomb that maimed an unintended target instead of the man who expelled him from the Mongols biker gang
By the time Richard Glen Mathews maimed an Imperial Beach man with a pipe bomb in May 1991, he’d already shot at least three people during his lifetime.
A federal jury convicted Mathews on six charges in 1993, and after successfully appealing a harsher initial sentence, he was sent to prison for a roughly 41-year term., an appeals court last year vacated Mathews’ sentence, and he was back in San Diego federal court Friday to be resentenced. The Supreme Court decision that helped Mathews successfully appeal his sentence had to do with what constitutes a crime of violence. In an 8-1 decision in the Johnson case, the high court held that a clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act that defined a “violent felony” was unconstitutionally vague.
Under the new sentencing guidelines, Mathews’ recommended sentence was between roughly six and eight years. “He had been a hard man, lived a hard life running with hard people,” Davis said. But he argued that after some initial prison violations in his first 10 years, he’d been mostly well behaved over the last 20. “The goals of sentencing have been achieved.”
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