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    Nevermind, they might not get convictions on any of the capital counts. How does someone "gain entry" into ISIS? Does ISIS have members?

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    The House always wins. It'll get the result it wants. As far as I can say from the peanut gallery, it seems that if the attack was just to gain favorable attention/ingratiate himself with them should be sufficient. Even if he couldn't "gain entry" from doing so, it's motive that counts. No different than proving conspiracy really.
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    Jury finds Sayfullo Saipov guilty in 2017 Westside truck terror attack

    By ABC7 Staff

    LOWER MANHATTAN, Manhattan -- Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek native who drove a rented truck down a Manhattan bike path adjacent to the Hudson River in an ISIS-inspired terror attack that killed eight people, was convicted Thursday by a federal court jury of murder and attempted murder in order to gain entry to ISIS, making him eligible for the death penalty.

    Saipov, in a dark jacket and white shirt, wore a mask over his face so he had no visible reaction. He bowed his head as the guilty verdicts were read.

    He was also convicted of providing material support to ISIS with death resulting.

    Jurors will next decide whether Saipov should face the death penalty and were told to be prepared to return to court for the penalty phase February 6.

    The jury reached its verdict after about six hours of deliberations over two days. Jurors sent several notes that indicated some confusion about the charges but came to a unanimous verdict on the 11th day of the trial.

    The defense called no witnesses but said Saipov did not carry out the attack to join ISIS as prosecutors said. Rather the defense said Saipov intended to die a martyr.

    Prosecutors said Saipov turned the West Side Highway bike bath into his battlefield and chose Halloween because he thought there would be more people out.

    The attack ended when Saipov crashed into a school bus but had that crash not happened prosecutors said he would have continued the rampage on the Brooklyn Bridge.

    https://abc7ny.com/terror-trial-saip...tack/12737333/

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    If he doesn’t get the death penalty, that would fuel the case for mandatory death sentences or at least the true unanimity rule.

    The House could already pass a bill in that sense, and if enacted in any future such federal law would be an example for all states.

    http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...l=1#post146930
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    It wouldn't fuel anything. Mass murderers avoid the death penalty all the time.

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    "All the time" seems over the top. True that there have been some cases previously, and it was shocking that almost nobody talked about the sentencing scheme issue.

    But people are beginning to notice. DeSantis this week called to change the law in reaction to the Parkland verdict.
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    Sayfullo Saipov has filed a motion to dismiss the government's death penalty notice because of "the arbitrary pursuit and implementation of the federal death penalty".

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...4263.699.0.pdf

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    New York City truck attack terrorist ‘has not abandoned his jihad,’ prosecutor tells jury — asking for his death

    By Adam Klasfeld
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    In a rare death penalty trial in Manhattan, a federal jury will decide whether to execute the man convicted of using a Home Depot rental truck as a weapon of terrorism in 2017.

    “He is proud of what he has done”

    More than five years ago on Halloween, Sayfullo Saipov drove the rental truck off the West Side Highway onto a bicycle and pedestrian greenway. The attack killed eight people and wounded 12. The truck stopped after crashing into a special-needs school bus.

    “The defendant Sayfullo Saipov committed a brutal terrorist attack in this city for ISIS,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Leigh Houle told a jury.

    With the fact-finding portion of the trial over, the prosecutor said that the penalty phase will focus on the victims’ torment: “Their minds are still haunted, terrorized by facing death and watching others die. And this was all part of the defendant’s plan.”

    “It’s what he wanted, and he is proud of what he has done,” Houle added, adding that Saipov “has not abandoned his jihad, his fight.”

    As he got out of the truck, Saipov was heard shouting “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.” Law enforcement shot him at the scene, before taking him to Bellevue Hospital for medical treatment. Saipov did not hide his motivation for the attack: the Islamic State group, whose flag he reportedly asked to wave inside his hospital room.

    Authorities say they found numerous pieces of evidence linking the attack to ISIS, including a document with a saying acolytes use to refer to the group: “It will endure.”

    “Cell phones recovered from the Truck contained, among other things, videos and images of ISIS propaganda, and internet searches for truck rentals and for Halloween in New York City,” the Justice Department said.

    Though the jurors have learned about Saipov’s actions, the prosecutor said: “You have not yet learned about the depths of that sorrow — about how the defendant forced one mother to hold her daughter and watch her die on that bike path.”

    One of the victims, 31-year-old Ann-Laure Decadt, had a 3-month-old son, and Houle noted that this child would not have a “single memory of his own mother’s face.” Several of Saipov’s surviving victims also will testify, the prosecutor said.

    “Choose life”

    Before proceedings began, Saipov’s attorney David Patton, who leads the Federal Defenders of New York, urged the judge to tell jurors not to speculate about what the victims would want as a sentence for the defendant.

    “A majority of the victims were in favor of or did not oppose a plea to a life sentence, and one of the deceased victims expressed her opposition to the death penalty before she was killed,” Patton wrote in a two-page letter. “Thus, particularly where many victims do not actually support executing Mr. Saipov, it is appropriate to remind jurors that they should avoid speculating about the outcome desired by each victim witness not only because it is irrelevant to their deliberations, but also because their assumptions could be wrong.”

    Patton’s co-counsel, David Stern of the firm Rothman, Schneider, Soloway & Stern, LLP, said that the jury has a choice few ever will have to make: “whether or not a fellow human being will live or die.”

    “He will die in jail,” the attorney said. “The only remaining question is when.”

    Throughout his presentation, Stern showed photographs of Saipov with his family of immigrants from Uzbekistan. Former President Donald Trump pointed to the Saipov family’s national origin to advocate for restricting immigration, but Stern said that his client had an unlikely trajectory to his crimes. He was a loved and valued member of the family, as a first-born son and first-born grandson.

    Stern did, however, note that ISIS recruits from Uzbekistan because of the former Soviet satellite’s harsh repression of religious minorities. In the United States, Saipov could encounter an “unfettered internet,” making him susceptible to the group’s propaganda, the attorney said.

    “He was ill-equipped to recognize it for what it really was,” Stern said.

    Asking the jury to reject the notion that “death begets death,” Stern said: “We will say that the cycle of death has to end somewhere.”

    Urging the jury to say “enough,” Stern asked them to “choose life.”

    If they do so, Stern said, that judgment would resound with the message: “We will not be like him. We will have a civilized sense of justice.”

    New York abolished the death penalty in 2004, but capital punishment is still available in federal courts.

    The New York Times reported that the last federal execution in the Empire State was imposed nearly seven decades ago in 1954, with bank robber Gerhard A. Puff, who killed an FBI agent. The paper noted that Saipov’s family hails from Uzbekistan and two of his victims are from Belgium and Argentina, all countries without capital punishment.

    U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick instructed the jury that they must unanimously choose the death penalty to send Saipov to his execution.

    https://lawandcrime.com/terrorism/ne...for-his-death/
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    ISIS-inspired terrorist requests mistrial because of NYC U-Haul attack

    By Ben Feuerherd
    The New York Post

    Attorneys for the ISIS-inspired terrorist who fatally mowed down eight people in Manhattan in 2017 have requested a mistrial in his federal death penalty case — citing media reports comparing his attack to this week’s U-Haul rampage in Brooklyn.

    Sayfullo Saipov’s lawyers argued “obtaining a fair trial at this time is impossible” in light of a series of news articles on Monday’s mayhem that “reflexively referenced” their client, according to a motion for a mistrial filed Tuesday night.

    “In reality, yesterday’s incident had nothing to do with terrorism or Mr. Saipov,” they wrote.

    “Instead, the driver of the U-Haul truck appears to be a 62-year-old man with a lengthy criminal record and mental health history, who told police he saw an ‘invisible object’ come toward his vehicle before striking his victims.”

    The attorneys claimed that because of the similarities between the two attacks, there’s a risk the jury’s deliberations will be tainted, violating Saipov’s Eighth Amendment rights.

    Prosecutors have not yet filed a response to the mistrial bid, and Judge Vernon Broderick has not yet ruled on the motion.

    A Manhattan federal court jury in January convicted Saipov of 28 counts, nine of which carry a maximum punishment of the death penalty.

    The trial entered the penalty phase on Monday, during which federal prosecutors will attempt to convince the same jurors that Saipov deserves to be put to death for the Oct. 31, 2017 terror attack off the West Side Highway that killed eight people and left several others injured.

    The defense’s request for a mistrial was first raised Monday just prior to opening statements when news reports about the U-Haul attack – which killed one person and injured eight others – were first being reported.

    “We don’t think it is appropriate to begin the penalty phase at a time when it is just impossible to avoid this news,” Saipov attorney David Patton told the judge then..

    Broderick denied the request, calling it “premature at best.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/sayful...u-haul-attack/

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    Feds rest death penalty case against West Side bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov

    By Molly Crane-Newman
    New York Daily News

    Federal prosecutors rested their death penalty case Wednesday against Sayfullo Saipov, the radical Islamic terrorist who killed eight people on a lower Manhattan bike path.

    The government wrapped up its case in Manhattan Federal Court after calling several family members of the people Saipov fatally mowed down on a West Side bike path in an ISIS-inspired truck attack on Oct. 31, 2017.

    Saipov’s lawyers called Chris Synsvoll, a supervising attorney for the federal Bureau of Prisons as their first witness. They questioned him about ADX Florence in Colorado, the “supermax” prison, which is referred to as the Alcatraz of the Rockies because of its isolated location. Inmates there include Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

    Saipov will be sent to the prison if one juror votes against executing him.

    Synsvoll said there are eight layers of security preceding the H unit at the prison, where Saipov would live out his days, and it houses 25 inmates.

    Prisoners in the block stay in their cells for 23 hours a day and can progress to different phases. During the first phase, inmates get two personal calls a month lasting 15 minutes and three showers a week. All calls are monitored.

    He said inmates are not allowed to touch family members during visits.

    “Every inmate at the ADX is non-contact,” Synsvoll said.

    Synsvoll said good behavior could bump inmates up to phase two when they get an extra phone call a month and five showers a week.

    “If you need to use the restroom, you can use the restroom at any time. We do limit the flushes,” Synsvoll said, adding prisoners are permitted two flushes an hour.

    There is no limit to how long people stay in the H block, Synsvoll testified, and the attorney general or their designee is the only official with the power to remove someone from that status.

    In seeking the death penalty, prosecutors have partially argued that Saipov remains too much of a threat behind bars to remain alive.

    Synsvoll testified that no inmates have seriously injured a corrections officer, and none have escaped. Saipov’s lawyer asked the prison official if it was safe to say that the H unit has successfully held people convicted of terrorism.

    “Yes,” Synsvoll said.

    Saipov, 35, was convicted of 28 murder and terrorism charges on Jan. 26. He will be the first federal defendant in Manhattan sentenced to death since 1954 if the jury chooses to side with prosecutors.

    https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...pte-story.html
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