Ecoterrorist Conviction Thrown Out Over Withheld Evidence

Eric Taylor McDavid has had his convictions for being a radical, domestic ecoterrorist thrown because thousands of pages of evidence were not turned over by federal prosecutors to his defense counsel, the Sacramento Bee reports. McDavid allegedly plotted to bomb or torch the Nimbus Dam, a U.S. Forest Service lab and cellphone towers in the Sacramento region. McDavid's lawyers said he fell for a FBI informant "who later prodded him to take violent action against government targets with promises that they would later consummate a romantic relationship, and the informant entrapped him by providing money, housing and food to McDavid and his two codefendants.