An Osceola County man convicted of domestic terrorism charges will spend more time on home confinement.

  • Marcus Faella will serve three years of home confinement after a sentence appeal Friday
  • Faella was convicted in 204 of providing paramilitary training to white supremacist group American Front
  • Faella is appealing the original conviction

Marcus Faella was the alleged leader of the white supremacist group American Front.

Back in 2014, Faella was sentenced to six months in jail and two years of home confinement, which was a very lenient sentence considering he could have served 30 years.

But an appeals process took place and on Friday the judge added one more year onto his home confinement.

Faella was once again fingerprinted in court and will continue to hold his status as a felon.

He has already served all of his time behind bars, but now he will be fitted with a GPS monitoring device to begin three years of home confinement, followed by nine years of probation.

Judge Jon Morgan said he felt the original sentence was appropriate and admitted that it was very lenient given the nature of the crimes.

Faella was found guilty of providing and teaching paramilitary training to members of his white supremacist group, even though his defense always argued that no attacks were ever planned.

“Judge Morgan has been very fair about everything so far, but I maintain my innocence from the very beginning," Faella said.

During the re-sentencing hearing, Faella’s wife, Patricia, was very outspoken in court, insisting that she speak to the judge about getting justice for her family.

Patricia was also arrested for being a member of American Front, but her charges were later dropped. 

A special condition of Faella’s community control is that he cannot be a member of any neo-Nazi or white supremacist organization. He also cannot associate with any of the members other than his wife and since he is a convicted felon, he cannot possess any weapons.

Faella has 30 days to appeal this most recent sentence, but his attorney says they will not. Instead, they are still working to appeal the original conviction and hope to take it to the Supreme Court.