Tuesday - March 14, 2006

Out Of Order

This is simply incredible. I saw this on Fox last night and was completely stunned. The man is an admitted terrorist. He is totally unashamed of his participation in 9/11. And this trial has just been goobered-up on a technicality? I’m sorry. I need to go lie down for a while. This defies all reason or sanity. Protecting a criminal’s rights has simply gone too far off the deep end. Especially in light of the fact that millions of dollars have already been spent on prosecuting this jerk. Millions of dollars that will go to incompetent lawyers. Yeah, I know. What other kind is there, right ... ?

Moussaoui Death Penalty Case May Be Tossed
_{Tue Mar 14, 3:28 AM ET}

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP)

Prosecutors are struggling to save their bid to execute al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui after the judge said a government lawyer’s misconduct makes it very difficult for the case to go forward.

Visibly angry, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema summoned the offending lawyer, Carla J. Martin of the Transportation Security Administration, to a hearing Tuesday to assess what damage she may have done by coaching seven witnesses.

The seven present or former federal aviation officials — three prosecution and four defense witnesses — also were to be questioned. Brinkema said she wanted to “find out if I can satisfy myself that their testimony is not going to be slanted or otherwise inaccurate” as a result of Martin’s coaching. Meanwhile, Brinkema suspended the sentencing trial on Monday and sent the jury home while she decides on a remedy for the government misconduct.

Defense attorney Edward MacMahon has moved to bar the government from pursuing the death penalty. If Brinkema does that, the trial would end. Moussaoui would automatically be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of release. And the government would likely appeal. The trial’s second week began Monday with a bombshell: “In all the years I have been on the bench, I have never seen such an egregious violation of a court’s rule on witnesses,” Brinkema told the court before the jury was brought in.

Brinkema had ordered that trial witnesses were not to see trial transcripts or to follow the case, to guard against their being coached or altering their testimony to conform with what others said.

- More on this incredible blunder here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/14/2006 at 08:00 AM   
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