Somali pirates appealing U.S. conviction

The Associated Press© September 20, 2011
By Steve Szkotak
RICHMOND
The first piracy conviction in a U.S. courtroom in nearly 200 years was going before an appeals court today as five Somali men who launched an attack on a Navy warship off the coast of Africa sought to reverse a jury's verdict.
Attorneys for the five planned to argue before a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the men's actions fell short of the legal standard for piracy.

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