Hadi Matar

Case file Hadi Matar, reference D C zero one two two. ABC News reported that on twelve August twenty twenty-two, Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times while speaking at the Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York, and moderator Henry Reese was also wounded. ABC News reported that on eighteen August twenty twenty-two, Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty in Chautauqua County Court to a state indictment charging second-degree attempted murder and assault, and Judge David Foley remanded him into custody. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal indictment announced on twenty-four July twenty twenty-four charged Matar with three counts, and at that stage the indictment was an allegation and Matar was presumed innocent. ABC News reported that a jury found Matar guilty in the New York state case on twenty-one February twenty twenty-five. The Associated Press reported that Judge David Foley later sentenced him to twenty-five years in prison, with a concurrent seven-year assault term. According to the Justice Department, a federal jury convicted Matar on twenty-nine July twenty twenty-six. Federal sentencing is scheduled for three November twenty twenty-six, with a maximum penalty of life in prison. The file’s open questions include what federal sentence will be imposed, and whether any post-verdict motions or appeal will be filed. This has been an automated reading of case file D C zero one two two at developing case dot com. Every fact you heard names a public source.