NEW YORK – A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and 30-year sentence of a Pakistani man found guilty in an unsuccessful plot to bomb a busy subway station in New York.
The Manhattan court decided that Shahwar Matin Siraj, 25, was treated fairly at his federal court trial.
A jury found him guilty in a 2004 plot to blow up the Herald Square subway station in a congested shopping district where Macy's has long had its flagship store.
Lawyers for the defendant had argued that their client had been set up by a police informant. But the government proved Siraj had shown an interest in radical Islam and violent jihad through books and a videotape.
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