"For four years, the defendants made the area around 129th Street and Lenox Avenue far more violent, far more dangerous, far more filled with gun crime than it deserved to be," Mr. Warshawer told jurors.
"It is her clinical opinion that, as a result of these experiences, exposure of the defendant's rectal area — or even anticipation of such exposure — triggers the defendant's P.T.S.D. and thus makes him unable to assist in his defense," Judge Kaplan wrote.
Magliano has written bonds for Baltimore-area defendants for over a decade.
But this is a legal grey area as defendants under English law can mount a defence if they can show that an undercover officer acted as an agent provocateur.
Lawyers asked Judge Sand to move the trial to Williamsport, Pa., because the defendants live in the area and because they do not think they can get a fair trial in Manhattan.
As the New York Civil Liberties Union noted in a court brief, the county's position relies on affidavits from county police officers and residents making generalized accusations about shady activities but offering no data on crime rates or the types of crimes committed in the "safety zone," and making no claims that any of the defendants regularly enter the area to commit crimes.
Liverpool, who had shared a flat with his co-defendant in the Longsight area of Manchester, was jailed for life following a three-week trial in which it was revealed he wrote notes detailing the killing and criticising the singer for her links to the Royal Family.
A1 Sniper Suspect Sought Lawyer A police detective testified in Virginia that Lee Malvo, the younger defendant in the Washington area sniper shootings, was read his rights before confessing, but she continued to interrogate him without a lawyer after he requested one.
A police detective testified today that Lee Malvo, the younger defendant in the Washington area sniper shootings, was read his rights before confessing to some of the attacks but that she continued to interrogate him without a lawyer after he requested one.
He alleged that when he was between 13 and 16, one of the men, Mel Phillips, would "frequently caress" his feet and "rub them against his (defendant's) own genital area".
