The man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie returned to a Mayville, N.Y., courtroom on Thursday over two subpoenas.

The attorney representing Hadi Matar, 26, requested copies of the manuscript and all documents related to Rushdie's book as well as the contract between Rushdie and publisher Random House, but the judge denied it.

The judge also lifted the gag order in the case.

Earlier this month, Matar rejected a plea deal that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge.

Matar has been held without bail since the 2022 attack in which he is accused of stabbing Rushdie and blinding him in one eye as the acclaimed writer was onstage and about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York.

His trial is scheduled for later this year.