IS LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM NOW WITH WHAT THE DEFENSE AND THE PROSECUTION ARE ASKING THE JUDGE TO CONSIDER. ARIELLE BICKFORD’S, ATTORNEYS ARE ASKING THE COURT TO TAKE A FEW THINGS INTO CONSIDERATION AT A SENTENCING. HIS UNTREATED MENTAL ILLNESS AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACK, HIS AGE, HIS DEMONSTRATED REHABILITATION AND THE LOW CHANCE THAT HE’LL TRY TO HURT ANYONE AGAIN. THEY’RE ASKING BICKFORD BE SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS, FOLLOWED BY 15 YEARS OF SUPERVISED RELEASE. THEY ARGUE TERRORISM EXPERTS FOUND HIS ASSAULT WAS NOT THE RESULT OF RADICALIZATION OR EXTREMISM, BUT. INSTEAD A PRODUCT OF HALLUCINATIONS HE WAS HAVING. THEY SAY HE STARTED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT IN JAIL, WHICH HAS HELPED LIMIT THOSE HALLUCINATIONS. THE DEFENSE ALSO ARGUING BICKFORD WAS RAISED IN A CHAOTIC AND VIOLENT HOUSEHOLD. THEY SAY HIS FATHER WAS AN ADDICT, THAT HE WAS ABUSIVE AND THAT BICKFORD BLAMED HIMSELF FOR HIS DEATH. HIS ATTORNEYS SAY BICKFORD’S FAMILY HAS NOTICED A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN HIM SINCE STARTING TREATMENT. THEY SAY HE’S NO LONGER A PRACTICING MUSLIM AND THAT HE’S CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY. ON THE OTHER HAND, PROSECUTORS ARE ASKING FOR A 120 YEAR SENTENCE. THEY SAY BICKFORD ADMITTED THE ATTACK WAS PREMEDITATED AND THAT HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS HE, QUOTE, INTENDED TO WAGE JIHAD AND KILL AS MANY OF HIS TARGETS AS POSSIBLE. THEY ARGUE ALL THREE OFFICERS ARE STILL TRAUMATIZED AND SOME UNABLE TO RETURN TO DUTY FOR THE NYPD. PROSECUTORS SAY BICKFORD ADMITTED TO PLANNING A TRIP TO AFGHANISTAN TO ALLY WITH THE TALIBAN, BUT HE ALSO SAID HE DIDN’T AGREE WITH THE TALIBAN’S USE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS, MENTIONING HE HAD NO INTENTION TO JOIN AL QAEDA. AND BICKFORD WROTE AN EXTENSIVE APOLOGY TO THE JUDGE, TO THE OFFICERS, TO HIS FAMILY AND TO THE COUNTRY. HE SAYS HE ISN’T MAKING EXCUSES FOR WHAT HE DID, ADMITTING HE WAS SICK A