NEW YORK -- The man accused of stabbing of author Salman Rushdie is set to face trial in Western New York. Jury selection got underway Tuesday in Chautauqua County Court for the trial of Hadi Matar.
Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture to a live audience in western New York when a man ran towards him and plunged a knife into the author's hand as he raised it in self-defence. "After that ...