In this artist's rendering, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema listens to testimony from attorney Carla Martin, regarding the coaching of witnesses, as Zacarius Moussaoui sits in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, March 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)
What do terrorists have to fear these days anyway?
If caught, they will likely get off or get away with their deeds regardless.
We are our own victims of our own government and judicial system, a system more intent on protecting the "rights" of the accused than of the citizens of this nation.
You have to wonder why in the world an attorney, who should know the procedures, would do such a stupid thing in such a high-profile case. This is exactly why you don't try such terrorists: you ship them to Gitmo and have them "disappear."
Speak, tagline, speak!
Goooooood tagline. Sit. Stay.
It's not like he is getting a "get out of jail free" card. He gets life without parole. This mistake affects the penalty phase only. Besides, in the interest of making lemonade out of lemons, I'm betting someone inside saves us the trouble of killing him.
A stupid, stupid blunder, yes. But one WE can live with.
WHO.IS.THIS.CARLA.MARTIN???
seriously, she did something very, VERY stupid.
I would like to know who appointed/hired her, what her political affiliations are, what her bank account activity has been for the last four years, etc...
"Government: Moussaoui Case May Be Lost"
I think the government has done a great job. They got a crazy terrorist to plead guilty to a terror act he was not part of. And life imprisonment.
It worked with Jack Ruby.
I have this feeling that Carla's in for a career change...
"confessed terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui"
He confessed and they still cannot do it what a joke.
Bet the losing government lawyers will get benefits and perks and retirment like OJ's did as well.
They work so hard to lose you know.
Once again:
This trial is a farce and a perversion of both our Constitution and our civil laws.
ZM is not guilty of any crimes, certainly not of any capital offenses.
What he is, is an enemy soldier, caught behind our lines and out of uniform. As such, he does not fall under the purview of the various Geneva Conventions.
Dealing with him is not the job of the Justice Department, nor is it the job of the Judicial Branch.
He should be killed by our armed forces, either summarily or after a tribunal hearing (not a trial).
He should have been put up against a wall on Rector Street in lower Manhattan and shot at sunrise on 9/12/01.
Everything that has happened to him since then is a sign of craven weakness and terminal stupidity.
Once again:
This trial is a farce and a perversion of both our Constitution and our civil laws.
ZM is not guilty of any crimes, certainly not of any capital offenses.
What he is, is an enemy soldier, caught behind our lines and out of uniform. As such, he does not fall under the purview of the various Geneva Conventions.
Dealing with him is not the job of the Justice Department, nor is it the job of the Judicial Branch.
He should be killed by our armed forces, either summarily or after a tribunal hearing (not a trial).
He should have been put up against a wall on Rector Street in lower Manhattan and shot at sunrise on 9/12/01.
Everything that has happened to him since then is a sign of craven weakness and terminal stupidity.
Just turn him loose at a designated point at a specified time in a state where folks have full Second Amendment rights, and the people will do that which the government is incapable of doing.
No, you really don't. It is all quite optional.
@!#@+&*@%^!!!
he's pled guilty
isn't this just over sentencing?
The Justice Department moved swiftly on Wednesday to try to salvage a crucial part of its death penalty case against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only individual charged in the U.S. with a crime growing out of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Department asked a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., to reconsider her ruling on Tuesday barring a significant array of testimony and evidence the government had planned to offer to bolster its death sentence request. The motion can be found here. The motion argued that the Court's order "is terribly excessive" and "is patently disproportionate to the prejudice that the defendant [Moussaoui] could conceivably have suffered in this case." It urged the judge to reconsider the entire order, or at least to "narrow it substantially." ...http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/03/government_move.html