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Judge postpones sentence for underwear bomber

Friday, January 06, 2012
In this courtroom drawing, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab appears in U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds courtroom Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in Detroit. Opening arguments in the trial of the Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear were heard Tuesday.

In this courtroom drawing, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab appears in U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds' courtroom Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011, in Detroit. Opening arguments in the trial of the Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a jetliner with a bomb in his underwear were heard Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jerry Lemenu)

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  Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) - January 6, 2012 (WPVI) -- A judge has postponed the sentencing of a Nigerian man who admits he tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab will now get his mandatory life sentence on Feb. 16.

Federal Judge Nancy Edmunds said Friday that a Jan. 19 hearing will still take place so passengers who already had planned to attend can speak to Abdulmutallab in court that day.

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The postponement gives Abdulmutallab more time to review a mandatory pre-sentence report prepared by the U.S. Probation Department.

He pleaded guilty in October to trying to blow up an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight on Christmas 2009.

Abdulmutallab is acting as his own lawyer. The judge denied his request to grant him a new attorney to advise him.

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