The attack at the Pulse nightclub by her husband, Omar Mateen, is one of the deadliest mass shootings on U.S. soil. Salman’s trial has been underway for weeks, but defense attorneys argued that they were not informed until Saturday of the father’s work for the FBI. Seddique Mateen — the father of Omar Mateen — was an FBI informant at various points between January 2005 and June 2016, court documents say. Prosecutors acknowledged the relationship between the FBI and Seddique Mateen in an email quoted in the defense attorneys’ filing. Defense attorneys frequently ask a judge to throw out a case before it goes to a jury, but such requests are seldom granted.

Source: Washington Post March 26, 2018 19:19 UTC