Samuel Mullet Sr. WKBN/U.S. Attorney (AP) CLEVELAND - Samuel Mullet Sr., the ringleader in hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Amish bishop Samuel Mullet could receive up to life in prison for orchestrating a series of violent beard-cutting attacks on his enemies, but his lawyer asked a federal judge ...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Bridget Brennan this morning detailed several attacks by followers of Sam Mullet Sr. on other Amish, including two bishops who had broken away from Sam Mullet. Brennan gave ...

Mullet and his family cut the beards of those who defied him; Beards have religious significance for the Amish; CLEVELAND — A judge sentenced the leader of a breakaway Amish sect to 15 years ...

Today Samuel Mullet Sr., the leader of an Amish sect in Ohio, ... How Sam Mullet, the Beard-Cutting Amish Bishop, Got Punished for His Religious Beliefs. Jacob Sullum | 2.8.2013 2:34 PM.

CLEVELAND — The ringleader in hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison. Before his sentencing, Samuel Mullet Sr. told Judge Dan Aaron ...

BERGHOLZ, Ohio — The ringleader in hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Sixty-seven-year-old Samuel Mullet Sr. was sentenced Frida… ...

Seven Amish men have been charged with hate crimes for cutting the beards and hair of Amish men in a different religious sect. The men, all family members of bishop Samuel Mullet, Sr., allegedly ...

Mullet's attorney, Ed Bryan, maintained that the government had not shown that Mullet was at the center of the attacks. The defendants who cut the hair and beards acted on their own and were ...

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