Published December 01, 2015
The jury foreman says jurors who convicted an Islamic cleric extradited from London on terrorism charges kept emotions about terrorism out of deliberations.
Howard Bailynson said Monday he never let 9/11 enter his decision-making process before finding Mustafa Kamel Mustafa (muh-STAH'-fuh kah-MEHL' muh-STAH'-fuh) guilty of all charges.
During a month-long trial, jurors heard a tape in which Mustafa said: "Everybody was happy when the planes hit the World Trade Center."
The jury deliberated two days before concluding the 56-year-old imam provided material support to terrorist organizations. Prosecutors said he gave a satellite phone to kidnappers of tourists in Yemen in 1998 and supported plans to open an al-Qaida training camp in Oregon.
Defense attorney Joshua Dratel said jurors reacted emotionally to the defendant, just as the defense team had feared.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/jurors-followed-facts-not-emotions-to-conviction-of-london-islamic-cleric-at-ny-terror-trial