DETROIT ? A Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner wants a new legal adviser, preferably an attorney who is Muslim.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO’-mahr fah-ROOK’ ahb-DOOL’-moo-TAH’-lahb) is asking a judge to dismiss his standby counsel, Anthony Chambers. He says their relationship is strained.
Abdulmutallab has been acting as his own lawyer, but Chambers was appointed to assist him. In October, on the second day of trial, Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty to attempting to bring down an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas 2009.
He faces a life sentence on Jan. 19.
Chambers tells The Detroit News ( http://bit.ly/uQKQBn) that Abdulmutallab is a “misguided young man with a distorted sense of reality.” He denies misleading him. A court hearing is set for Jan. 6.
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Information from: The Detroit News, http://detnews.com/
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