From the Boston Globe:
Shaky testimony and prejudice by the jury foreman should be enough to grant a new trial to a Lodi man convicted last year of terrorism-related charges, a defense lawyer argued Friday.
Attorney Dennis Riordan told a federal judge that jury foreman Joseph Cote was biased against his client because he is Pakistani-American, a Muslim and was charged with terrorist activities.
"We really have a question if we had 12 fair jurors," Riordan said during a hearing in U.S. District Court. "We know that one of them was not fair."
Hamid Hayat's sentencing has been postponed while Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. considers a defense motion seeking a new trial. The judge delayed making a decision.
Hayat, 24, was arrested in June 2005 and convicted last April of lying to federal agents when he denied attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan in 2003.
I wonder how this will unfold...was Cote really biased, or is Hayat just playing the race card? The latter, according to Assistant US Attorney Robert Tice-Raskin...
"Did Hamid Hayat receive a fair trial?" Tice-Raskin said during the hearing. "The answer is yes -- absolutely yes."
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