| With
DOJ Seeking
Death Penalty
on Saipov for
West Side
Attack Both
Sides Nix
Juror 435
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Thread
Honduras
- The
Source - The
Root - Podcast
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 28 – Sayfullo Saipov has
been facing a trial that may
result in the death penalty
for killing eight people with
a van along the West Side
Highway.
On May 4
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Vernon S. Broderick held
a conference on the case and
Inner City Press live tweet it
here
and below.
On October
13,
2022
Saipov's
Federal
Defenders
wrote to object to
any disqualification of
anti death
penalty
jurors, focusing
on Juror 17
who cited
his religious
opposition to
the death
penalty. They
argue that
exclusion
would violate
the Free
Exercise Clause
of the
First
Amendment. Inclusion
would
guarantee no
death penalty
imposed.
On
November 28,
prospective
juror 435, a 22
year old woman with
short hair in a black
and white
floral print
shirt, was in
the witness
box. She first
said she could
not envision
imposing the
death penalty
- then said
that if the
majority voted
for it, she
would go
along. (Sheep,
someone said).
She was asked
to step out,
and the AUSA
moved to strike. The head
Federal
Defender said
he did not
oppose.
Judge Broderick
said
this might be
the first
time both
sides would
have moved to
strike. When
Juror, now
non-juror,
435 came back
in, Judge Broderick
said she was
excused, and
could not tell
her
parents what
the case is
about, if she
chooses.
The
process proceeds.
Inner
City Press
will stay on the case.
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