Bushies screw up again-- this time in Moussaiou's trial!

[SushiFan]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060312121509990008&ncid=NWS00010000000001


Angry Judge Halts Moussaoui Sentencing Trial
Death Penalty May Be Eliminated as Option

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (March 13) -- An angry federal judge considered Monday whether to dismiss the government's death penalty case against confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui after a federal attorney coached witnesses in violation of her rules. "I do not want to act precipitously," U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said in scheduling a special hearing on the case Tuesday, but she said that it was "very difficult for this case to go forward."

Brinkema said a lawyer for the Transportation Security Administration sent e-mail to seven Federal Aviation Administration officials outlining the prosecution's opening statements and providing commentary on government witnesses from the first day of testimony. That was in violation of her pre-trial order barring witnesses from exposure to any opening statements of trial testimony.

"An attorney for the TSA ... egregiously breached that order," she told jurors before excusing them. Of the seven, three were to testify for the government and four were potential defense witnesses. "This is the second significant error by the government affecting the constitutional rights of this defendant and more importantly the integrity of the criminal justice system of the United States in the context of a death case," Brinkema told lawyers outside the presence of the jury.

Defense attorney Edward MacMahon moved to have the judge dismiss the death penalty as a possible outcome, saying "this is not going to be a fair trial." In the alternative, he said, at least she should excuse the government's FAA witnesses from the case.

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[Taverner]

1. Make no mistake. Bush was SUPPOSED to screw this up

As so to justify the Patriot Act and the shredding of freedoms.

You see, if Moussaoui gets a conviction, then that proves the pre-9/11 system works, and we don't need to give up our freedoms for security.

If Moussaoui walks, then the Bushies can point to this case and say "See! See! We need to install cameras into everyone's home!!"

[berni_mccoy]

3. I agree. NO LAWYER would do such a thing VIA EMAIL.

Lawyers HATE email because it is SO TRACKABLE and once it's sent, you can't gaurantee it's ever going to be deleted. The communication touches SO MANY different machines and/or hard-drives...

No lawyer, even incompetent ones, would screw up this BADLY. She did it on purpose.

[SushiFan]

9. No way she did it knowingly because

the bushies are very clumsy and not too bright.

See my reply to tavener in the post a couple down below yours.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. No way he's going to walk - but that's not what this was about.

It was about giving him the DP for involvement with 9/11. His is a self-admitted terrorist and will get life in any case, but the link to 9/11 was never more than tenuous at best. They say that if he told all he knew, they could have prevented 9/11, but that doesn't account for all the information they already had that pointed more directly at 9/11 which they ignored.

It's about them losing their scapegoat.

[Richard Steele]

7. Yup. "What he knew" was much less than what THEY knew!

And, as time goes by, we have begun to see that they
had a repeated and deliberate pattern of BLOCKING
all investigations which might POSSIBLY have prevented
the events of Sept 11.

This criminal already PLEAD GUILTY to enough stuff
to receive "Life plus 100"...and I'll shed no tears if he never sees the sun again.

But that's not why they want his name in the news.

[SushiFan]

8. I disagree...... you give the bushies too much credit because

they can't think this smart to outfox this and outfox that in case this happens and that happens.

They screwed up their own case. They screw up all the time. This is just more of the same.

[EST]

2. These stupid f**kers have to cheat in everything they do.

Even when they already hold all the aces, and know it, they still can't resist.

[EFerrari]

5. I agree. They can't help themselves. n/t

[lovuian]

6. Anyone involved in 9/11 will walk... Everyone...

we don't even know if Atta was really on that plane or not!!!

[SushiFan]

10. You're abs. right lovuian. And that's what's such a

shame that this entire mess, from twin towers implosions to the current trial had to happen in the most corrupt regime America has ever known in the BA's.