Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James seeking 18 years in N train attack

Attorneys for a man who opened fire on a crowded New York subway train, injuring 10 and sparking an intense city-wide manhunt, are asking that he be sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Frank James, now 64, has been “tormented by lifelong paranoid schizophrenia,” his federal public defenders wrote in a sentencing memorandum this week.

James in January pleaded guilty to 11 federal counts, most of which were for committing a terrorist attack against a mass transit system, in connection with the April 2022 shooting.

Prosecutors are asking for what amounts to a life sentence — 10 life sentences served concurrently, or at the same time — plus 10 years, according to court documents they filed Wednesday.

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