In a split ruling, the court overturned one of Akayed Ullah’s jury convictions after finding the evidence did not show he acted under the Islamic State’s “direction or control” in carrying out a suicide bomb plot in a Manhattan transit hub.
MANHATTAN (CN) — The Second Circuit on Tuesday affirmed three concurrent life sentences for the man behind an ISIS-inspired attempted pipe bomb attack between the Times Square subway station and the Port Authority bus terminal in December 2017, while reversing one conviction based on a narrow reading of the material support statute.
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