United States v. Salameh
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
152 F.3d 88 (1998)
Mohammed Salameh, Mahmoud Abouhalima, and others (defendants) were charged with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and thirty other overt acts in furtherance of a conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, with evidence showing the bombing was meant to be the first of a planned series of attacks and that the group kept explosives and planned further attacks even afterward. The trial judge denied Abouhalima's request for an instruction requiring proof he specifically intended to bomb the World Trade Center itself, and the jury convicted the defendants on all counts; they appealed the denial of that instruction.
Whether a conspiracy indictment charging a broad scheme to commit offenses against the United States requires the jury to find that a defendant specifically intended to bomb a particular building, where the evidence shows a wider ongoing campaign of planned attacks.