NEW YORK (AP) - Attorneys for the man charged in the failed pipe bombing of the New York subway last year want to quiz prospective jurors about their exposure to recent media coverage of pipe bombs mailed around the country.
Akayed Ullah is scheduled to stand trial in Manhattan on Monday on terrorism-related charges and using a weapon of mass destruction. He has pleaded not guilty.
The Bangladeshi immigrant was the only person seriously hurt when the bomb went off Dec. 11 in a corridor linking subways under Manhattan’s Port Authority bus terminal. The bomb never fully exploded.
Ullah’s defense attorneys are asking a federal judge to ensure jurors were not influenced by the widespread media coverage in recent days of more than a dozen pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats around the country.
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