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Mayor Eric Adams leaves court docket on Feb. 19. Picture by Dean Moses A federal choose on Friday hit the brakes on dismissing Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption case. In a Friday ruling, Federal District Choose Dale Ho canceled Adams’ April 21 trial with out tossing the case out in its entirety. As a substitute of granting the movement to dismiss the case sought by President Trump’s Justice Division, Ho appointed an impartial legal professional—Paul Clement of the regulation agency Clement & Murphy PLLC—to argue towards the movement. “To assist with its decision-making via an adversarial process, the Court exercises its…
A New Jersey man was convicted Friday of tried homicide for stabbing writer Salman Rushdie a number of instances on a New York lecture stage in 2022. A jury additionally discovered Hadi Matar, 27, responsible of assault for wounding a person who was on stage with Rushdie on the time. The verdicts have been delivered after lower than two hours of deliberations following a trial in Chautauqua County Courtroom. Matar ran onto the stage on the Chautauqua Establishment the place Rushdie was about to talk on Aug. 12, 2022, and stabbed him greater than a dozen instances earlier than a…