Federal Appeals Court Upholds Conviction Of Would-Be Subway Bomber
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the conviction of an American citizen who prosecutors said was persuaded by al-Qaida to carry out a suicide attack in New York’s subways with two former high school classmates from Queens.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Adis Medunjanin’s claims that his 2012 trial was unfair because statements he made to FBI agents and police detectives should have been suppressed.
Medunjanin, originally from Bosnia, was sentenced to life in prison in November 2012 for his role in a foiled 2009 conspiracy considered the most serious al-Qaida plot inside the United States since the 9/11 terror attacks.
In a decision written by Judge Amalya Kearse, the appeals court said Medunjanin was apprised of his rights repeatedly during extensive questioning in January 2010. The three-judge panel concluded that law enforcement authorities had no obligation to inform Medunjanin that his attorney, Robert Gottlieb, was trying to reach him when they questioned him despite Gottlieb’s insistence that he not be questioned without him present.
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