UPDATE: Randeep Mann sentenced to life in prison

Defense to appeal

— A Russellville doctor convicted of orchestrating a bombing attack on the chairman of the State Medical Board will spend the rest of his life in prison, a federal judge ordered Monday. Mann was also given a $100,000 fine with restitution to be figured later.

Defense lawyers said they would will appeal. Attorney Blake Hendrix says Mann maintains his innocence. Hendrix says too many charges were brought into the same trial as Mann was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and also faced weapons and obstruction counts.

Hendrix says there was no science to back up the conviction and that the appeal will focus on the sufficiency of the evidence.

Randeep Mann was convicted of several charges related to the Feb. 4, 2009 bombing attack, which seriously injured Dr. Trent Pierce. Prosecutors argued Mann plotted the bombing in retaliation for the board not reinstating his permit to prescribe medication, which had been revoked over concerns about several of Mann's patients overdosing.

Mann, who was tried with his wife, Sangeeta Mann, was also found guilty of obstructing the investigation, possessing an unregistered machine gun and possessing nearly 100 grenades found near his Pope County residence.

Sangeeta Mann was found guilty of obstructing the investigation but innocent of charges she lied to a grand jury. She was set to to be sentenced in a hearing scheduled just after her husband's sentencing.

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