CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Chicago say a judge was too lenient in sentencing a man to 16 years in prison for plotting to detonate a car outside a crowded bar.

In a court filing made public Thursday, prosecutors ask the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the sentence handed Adel Daoud last year by Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman. Assistant U.S. Attorney Georgia Alexakis contends Coleman improperly characterized Daoud’s attempt to bomb the downtown bar in 2012 to “ immaturity, braggadocio and `what teenage boys do.’” Prosecutors requested a 40-year sentence for Daoud, who entered an Alford plea in 2018.