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Subway shooter Frank James seeks 18-year term in NYC terror case; he’s ‘not evil,’ say lawyers

Subway shooter Frank James seeks 18-year term in NYC terror case; he’s ‘not evil,’ say lawyers

NEW YORK — Subway shooter Frank James, who unleashed a terrifying hail of bullets in a crowded Brooklyn train last year, wants an 18-year prison sentence for multiple terrorism charges. James, 64, who set off smoke bombs, fired 32 bullets and injured 10 people in the April 12, 2022, rush-hour attack, didn’t care who died — but he didn’t mean to kill anyone, his lawyers said in a letter to a Brooklyn Federal Court judge on Tuesday. “Mr. James is not evil. He is very, very ill,” wrote Mia Eisner-Grynberg of the Federal Defenders, describing how “his entire life had been defined by trauma and har...

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