Nigerian Man Chimene Onyeri Sentenced To Life In Prison For Plotting To Assasinate District Judge

Chimene Onyeri, the Houston man who plotted the attempted assassination of Travis County state District Judge Julie Kocurek in November 2015, will spend the rest of his life in federal prison. His life sentence came down Tuesday from U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel, who called Onyeri’s actions “heinous” and worthy of the stiffest punishment available to the court.In explaining his via IFTTT