MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Defense cites Trump's death penalty tweets in New York terror attack trial
By artappraiser on Fri, 09/07/2018 - 2:51am |Sayfullo Saipov’s attorney claims Jeff Sessions cannot ‘fairly and independently’ decide whether to seek capital punishment
Donald Trump’s tweet last year that the man accused of the bicycle path terrorist attack in New York “SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY” means that attorney general Jeff Sessions can’t make a fair decision on whether to seek his execution, the suspect argued in court papers on Thursday.
Sayfullo Saipov is charged with killing eight people with a rented pickup truck on 31 October 2017. The department of justice, headed by Sessions, is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether to seek capital punishment for Saipov, the New York Daily News reported. In new papers filed in Manhattan supreme court on Thursday, Saipov’s attorney, Jennifer Brown, wrote that Sessions cannot “fairly and independently decide whether to seek the death penalty”.
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