#Fulton street station trial

Flames shot up to the ceiling, incinerated subway advertisements and moved like a wall the length of the car, engulfing Christmas packages, briefcases and people. Some passengers heard a pop, others a boom, others a loud bang. 4 train, which was crammed with people returning to work from lunch and Christmas shopping. 21, at 1:35 P.M., the second device went off in the sixth car of the No. Two teen-age students were injured, and investigators at first thought one of them had been carrying the device in a backpack.īut on Dec. 3 train stopped at 145th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. 21, 1994, caused new anxiety in an already shaken city. 4 train stopped at the Fulton Street station in Manhattan's financial district on Dec. Morgenthau said the maximum could range from 35 to 105 years.Ĭoming less than two years after the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993, the firebombing in a crowded downtown No. Leary will receive on April 18 depends in part on Justice Uviller's interpretation of sentencing guidelines and her discretion, but District Attorney Robert M. As for the attempted grand larceny charge, the juror agreed 'that was the direction he may have been going,' but said that the prosecution had not proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.Įach of the two counts of attempted murder carries a sentence of 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison. The juror also said the prosecution's rebuttal witnesses had weakened the testimony of a defense psychiatrist. Leary had fled the scene of the second bombing showed he was rational. The juror, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the fact that Mr. One juror said the defense did not come close to persuading the panel that antidepressants had made him insane. Leary guilty, not guilty, or not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect. Uviller of State Supreme Court in Manhattan: to find Mr.

#Fulton street station trial

The jury in the seven-week trial had been given three choices by Justice Rena K. 'But we have to live with the constant reminders of what happened that day.'

'There was rejoicing in my heart when I heard the news,' said Winfield Edey, 61, of Queens. Some of the bombing victims said the verdict gave them a sense of relief but could not begin to restore their damaged lives. The thing that bothers me is when they didn't find extortion, then what was the rationale?' 'I'm very shaken and I was prepared for the worst.

Shaller, who sat in the empty courtroom a long time after he had been led out in handcuffs.

Leary, 50, of Scotch Plains, N.J., glanced toward his wife, Marguerite Shaller, and nodded to her with a slight smile. Leary's defense was that he had been driven insane by an incompatible mix of mind-altering drugs, including Prozac, prescribed for his depression, so that he could not be held responsible.Īfter the verdict, Mr.

Leary carried the two firebombs - built of mayonnaise jars, kitchen timers, batteries and flashbulbs - onto the two Manhattan trains.