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An artist's rendering prosecutor David Novak, right, and defense attourney Edward MacMahon, center, plead their cases to the U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema during the fifth day of Zacarius Moussaoui's, left, sentencing trial at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. during Monday, March 9, 2006. The angry federal judge unexpectedly recessed the death penalty trial of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to consider whether government violations of her rules against coaching witnesses should remove the death penalty as an option. The stunning development came at the opening of the fifth day of the trial as the government had informed the judge and the defense over the weekend that a lawyer for the Federal Aviation Administration had coached four government FAA witnesses in violation of the rule set by Judge Brinkema that no witness should hear trial testimony in advance. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)
1 posted on 03/15/2006 11:47:00 PM PST by freepatriot32
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2 posted on 03/15/2006 11:48:35 PM PST by freepatriot32 (Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
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In the Urofsky case several Virginia state employees challenged the constitutionality of a state statute barring state employees from using their computers at work to view porn. Judge Brinkema agreed, and held the statute unconstitutional. Virginia appealed, and Judge Brinkema was reversed by a unanimous Opinion of a three judge Court of Appeals panel.

U.S. District Court Judge.

* Nominated by President Bill Clinton.
* Entered duty 10/23/93.


3 posted on 03/15/2006 11:56:32 PM PST by stinkerpot65
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The government has unlimited resources at its disposal...investigators, attorneys, judges, law enforcement officers, etc., and never run out of money.

And they still want to cheat to get a conviction.
7 posted on 03/16/2006 4:06:25 AM PST by Supernatural (When they come a wull staun ma groon, Staun ma groon al nae be afraid)
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