On Friday, a jury in St. Petersburg, Florida acquitted the widow of the terrorist who massacred 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando in 2016. The widow had been charged with obstructing the FBI investigation and providing material support to a terrorist organization, but the defense succeeded in raising enough questions about her knowledge of her husband’s radicalism and his murderous plans to acquit her of all charges. Here’s what you need to know:
Prosecutors argued the widow helped her husband prepare for a terrorist attack.
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