(Canadian Press) The conviction and 40-year prison term handed a young Canadian for plotting terrorist attacks on New York City was entirely justified, American prosecutors argue in a new appeal brief.
In addition, they reject arguments from Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy that his fair-trial rights were compromised by the judge’s refusal to let him fire his legal aid lawyers.
“The imposition of a term of 40 years’ imprisonment for an individual who attempted to carry out a mass-casualty terrorist attack for ISIS in New York City was not ‘shockingly high,’ shockingly low, or otherwise unsupportable as a matter of law,” the prosecutors say. “El Bahnasawy’s challenge to his sentence is easily rejected.”
