A Maryland stock trader who was released from prison early in July after a man burned alive inside his home while digging tunnels in preparation for a North Korean nuclear attack has asked the Supreme Court to review his manslaughter conviction.
Daniel Beckwitt, a stock trader in Bethesda, argued in a 73-page filing to the Supreme Court that he was unable to use a certain legal defense — field preemption — against liability charges for the 2017 death of Askia Khafra. He is representing himself in his Supreme Court appeal.
Beckwitt, a young millionaire, hired Khafra, 21, to dig tunnels under his Maryland home in preparation for a potential nuclear attack from North Korea.