Fifty-one-year-old Ali Mohamed Ali would have faced a mandatory life sentence if convicted of piracy.
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A jury has found a Somali man who acted as a negotiator for pirates aboard a hijacked ship not guilty of piracy, but has not yet reached a verdict on two lesser charges.
Fifty-one-year-old Ali Mohamed Ali would have faced a mandatory life sentence if convicted of piracy. He smiled and embraced his lawyer after the verdict was announced Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle told jurors to continue deliberating on two remaining charges of hostage-taking.
Ali negotiated a ransom for Somali pirates during a 2008 pirate takeover of a Danish merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden. At the time of his 2011 arrest, he was the education minister in Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, but he's spent most of his adult life in the U.S.
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