If the law was so badly applied, why no news outlet ever mention the judge name or defense attorney? It is clearly a case of incompetence or negligence.
There's tons of detailed information about this case on this website: http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/
That website includes PDFs of all the legal motions, memos, declarations and arguments made in the case: http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/legal-arguments/
Reviewing these documents, we see that the 3 defendants were initially indicted for "malicious mischief" on 7-Aug-2012, under 18 U.S. Code § 1363. But a superceding indictment filed on 4-Dec-2012 upgraded the charges to "sabotage" under 18 U.S. Code § 2155.