Citing Trump tweets, accused NY attacker seeks to avoid death penalty

[phands]

Twitter needs to close the shitgibbon's account.....

[FONT=&quot]Lawyers for Sayfullo Saipov, the man accused of killing eight people by driving a truck into a New York City bike path in October, on Thursday asked a federal judge to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, saying President Donald Trump’s statements on Twitter have made a fair legal process impossible.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]In a motion filed in Manhattan federal court, Saipov’s lawyers said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who must decide whether to pursue the death penalty, cannot be objective because Trump has pressured him to make decisions based on “nakedly political considerations” and has called for Saipov to be executed.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The lawyers pointed to a Monday tweet in which the president criticized the “Jeff Sessions Justice Department” for indicting two Republican congressmen “just ahead” of the upcoming congressional elections.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]They also cited two tweets following Saipov’s arrest calling for him to face the death penalty.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Together, they said, Trump’s tweets make it impossible for Sessions to “exercise independent discretion” on the matter.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]They asked that if the judge declines to bar the death penalty altogether, an independent prosecutor be appointed to make the decision in place of Sessions.[/FONT]

I don't agree with the death penalty at all....this guy needs to live a long and miserable life in jail....perhaps sharing the soap with Paul Manafort.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/citing-trump-tweets-accused-ny-attacker-seeks-avoid-death-penalty/

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It is an interesting direction, as this is generally why Presidents haven't been as involved with cases.

Though, didn't this guy get caught with the truck?

 

[Worldtraveller]

It is an interesting direction, as this is generally why Presidents haven't been as involved with cases.

Though, didn't this guy get caught with the truck?

He's not pleading not guilty. He's just trying to get out of the death sentence.