Colorado firebomb suspect to plead guilty to all state charges, defense says

The man accused of lobbing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally in Colorado last year, killing one person and injuring about two dozen others, will plead guilty later this week to all 184 charges he faces in state court, according to his lawyers.



The disclosure surfaced in an emergency petition filed on Sunday by attorneys for the fire-bombing suspect, Mohamed Soliman, 46, an Egyptian national, as part of a separate federal hate-crimes case pending against him.



The motion seeks a U.S. District Court order to prevent six of his immediate family members - his ex-wife and five children - from being deported, at least until federal prosecutors decide whether to pursue the death penalty against him in their case.



Removing them from the country, the defense argued, would deprive their client of his constitutional right to present his loved ones as mitigating character witnesses in a capital murder trial.



According to that motion, Soliman offered to plead guilty in the federal case in return for a lifelong prison sentence, but the government has yet to decide whether to accept his proposal.



In the state case, defense attorneys wrote, Soliman "will plead guilty to all charges" on Thursday under a plea agreement in which the Boulder County District Court will "impose a prison sentence of life without parole, plus at least 400 years."