SEATTLE — Would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam can speak for himself when he is resentenced Dec. 3 in federal court in Seattle.
A federal magistrate decided Thursday that Ressam can represent himself and that public defender Tom Hillier will remain as his backup.
Ressam previously said he doesn’t trust his lawyers.
The Algerian was arrested at the Port Angeles port of entry after he drove a rental car containing bomb-making materials, including explosives, off the MV Coho ferry from Victoria.
He convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around Jan. 1, 2000, although the millennium celebration at the Seattle Space Needle were canceled.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour sentenced Ressam to 22 years in prison in 2005. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction, but sent the case back to the judge to recalculate the sentence.
