Cassation Court upholds over three-year sentence in restaurant robbery

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Cassation Court upholds over three-year sentence in restaurant robbery

AMMAN — The Court of Cassation has upheld a March 2022 Irbid Appeals Court ruling sentencing a man to over three years in prison after convicting him of committing a violent robbery in a restaurant in January 2020. The defendant was convicted of snatching two shawarma sandwich meals worth JD10 from a restaurant in downtown Irbid and hitting the owner with a chair in the process. However, the court decided to reduce the prison term to three years…