Prosecutors have been given until tomorrow to appeal an evidence-review order for four alleged homegrown terrorists accused of plotting to bomb two Bronx synagogues.
Judge Colleen McMahon, declaring that the prosecution had failed to turn over key information about the lead defendant, indefinitely postponed the upstate Newburgh trial yesterday and scheduled a bail hearing for Monday.
“No guarantees, gentlemen. No guarantees. But I will listen to bail applications, given everything that has gone on,” she said.
The four defendants have been in jail since their May 2009 arrests on charges that also include planning to shoot down military aircraft at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.
The defense contends that the suspects were entrapped by a government informer who lured them into a sting operation.