Cesar Sayoc lawyers say 'hoax devices' warrant 10 years in slammer, not life

Court-appointed lawyers for Florida strip club DJ Cesar Sayoc said in a sentencing memo their steroid-addled client believed the non-working pipe bombs he mailed to prominent Democrats and other people opposed to President Trump were intended to be hoax devices that would frighten the recipient and were not designed to actually injure Sayoc's targets.

Sayoc, 57, faces the possibility of life in prison after pleading guilty in New York Federal Court to sending the dud devices and spreading terror in the weeks ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.