The Justice Department is seeking what would be the Biden administration's first federal death sentence. More than five years after the Manhattan bike path attack, opening statements in the federal trial of the man accused of carrying it out began Monday.
opening statements in the federal trial of the man accused of carrying it out began Monday in a courtroom in Lower Manhattan. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Li painted an agonizing dual portrait of what happened on Oct. 31, 2017.
Li said on one side was Sayfullo Saipov, a 34-year-old Uzbekistan native who has been charged with terrorism and murder in the case. On the other side,“The riders, human beings, lay unconscious or dead,” Li said. “Survivors staggered, wounded and dazed, searching for their family and friends. Screams filled the air.”Victims were crushed and sent flying in the air, Li said, while others were left “bleeding to die.
Saipov’s attorneys have not contested that he was the attacker. David Patton, an attorney for Saipov, told jurors that although his client undeniably carried out the attack, he did not do so with the expectation of becoming a full-fledged member of the Islamic State. Instead, Patton said, Saipov, who has pleaded not guilty, expected to die a martyr.
The death penalty has loomed over the case since the immediate aftermath of the bloodshed. Only days after the attack, President Donald Trump tweeted a call
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