{"id":208704,"date":"2026-04-24T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208704\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:32:10","slug":"new-york-federal-appeals-court-overturns-1-conviction-against-man-who-set-off-pipe-bomb-in-nyc-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208704\/","title":{"rendered":"New York federal appeals court overturns 1 conviction against man who set off pipe bomb in NYC subway"},"content":{"rendered":"

A terrorism conviction against the man serving life in prison<\/a> for setting off a pipe bomb in the New York City subway was overturned by a federal appeals court in Manhattan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The filing from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Akayed Ullah was not providing material support to ISIS when he carried out the attack at the busy Times Square-Port Authority station in 2017<\/a>, though prosecutors argued at the time he had been radicalized and “admitted that he did it on behalf of ISIS.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The reversal does not change Ullah’s prison sentence, since the judges upheld the rest of the verdict<\/a>, which also found him guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction and committing a terrorist attack against a mass transportation system.<\/p>\n

“We affirm the judgment on all of the challenged counts except Count One … because the evidence was insufficient to show that Defendant provided material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization,” the court filing said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ullah, an immigrant form Bangladesh<\/a>, told the judge at his 2021 sentencing, “I’m deeply sorry. … I do not support harming innocent people.” His defense attorney had blamed the attack on a “personal crisis that left him isolated, depressed, vulnerable and suicidal,” and asked the court for 35 years in prison, instead of a life sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ullah was burned in the blast from the pipe bomb on Dec. 11, 2017. No one was killed, but some people near him suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n

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