Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, walks in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Hadi Matar, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, walks in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, walks in to Chautauqua County court as his defense team huddles in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Chautauqua County district attorney Jason Schmidt, right, walks in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Public defender Nathaniel Barone walks in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Steve Davies, of Brooklyn, is interviewed by media outside Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Davies, who witnessed the 2022 knife attack on author Salman Rushdie, was in court as a spectator. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)The defense team for Hadi Matar, left, huddles in Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Matar is charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, walks in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Hadi Matar, accused of repeatedly stabbing Salman Rushdie as the renowned author was being introduced for a lecture in western New York, sits in court during his attempted murder trial, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Mayville, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Hadi Matar, accused of repeatedly stabbing Salman Rushdie as the renowned author was being introduced for a lecture in western New York, walks in the courtroom during a break in his attempted murder trial, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Chautauqua County Court in Mayville, N.Y. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
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Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, walks in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
