Hadi Matar, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, is led in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)Hadi Matar, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, is led in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)FILE - Author Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book "Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder", at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Germany, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)FILE - Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman, File)Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, speaks to his defense team in Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)In this courtroom sketch, Public Defender Lynn Shaffer asks her client, Hadi Matar, left, to stand while giving her opening statement in his the trial iin Chautauqua County court, in Mayville, NY, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt walks out of Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)In this courtroom sketch, District Attorney Jason Schmidt presents his opening statement in the trial of Hadi Matar, iin Chautauqua County court, in Mayville, NY, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, as Judge David Foley is seated on the bench. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, is led in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)In this courtroom sketch, the first trial witness Deborah Moore Kushmaul, Director of Programming at the Chautauqua Institute, describes being handed the knife that was found on the stage after the assault on Salman Rushdie , during the trial of Hadi Matar, iin Chautauqua County court, in Mayville, NY, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, as Judge David Foley is seated on the bench. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
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Hadi Matar, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, is led in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
