Militia leader appeal draws split ruling

A federal appeals court has thrown out one of the convictions of former Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox.
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision filed Tuesday vacates Cox’s conviction of solicitation to murder federal officials.
The six-page ruling upholds a conspiracy to murder conviction and remands the case back to district court for re-sentencing.
Schaeffer Cox was convicted of both murder conspiracy and solicitation as well as weapons violations in 2012, and later s