Why not have the 9/11 trial in Washington DC? Does the supreme court have more than 1 room?

[LeftyAndProud60]

DC is still the most secure place in the country. And what better place to have a trial than our nation's capital?

[Turbineguy]

1. The Supreme Court

would find him not guilty by a 5 to 4 majority.

[LeftyAndProud60]

2. I meant the building itself. Isn't there more than 1 courtroom in the building? NT

[Turbineguy]

3. Sorry

I was being a bit snarky. Toward the Court, not you.

[timeforpeace]

4. Many places more secure than DC, like military bases, but security is not the issue in any event.

[MiniMe]

5. DC can't afford it either

And technically, DC wasn't hit. The Pentagon is in Virginia. New York is the obvious venue, since most of the destruction took place there. But the necessary security would be crazy, you would have to put extra security on the jury, the judge, the attorneys, the court room itself, and I'm sure other places. I don't know what the answer is, I think he should be tried in the US criminal court system, but I don't know about the venue. I will say that Virginia successfully tried the DC Beltway sniper.

I was in New York when Castro went to New York in 1979. Long story, but I flew up for a funeral and a connecting flight was canceled. I spoke to my father and he told me how to get to my Grandmother's house in New Jersey, and I was going to meet them there, so I was by myself. The directions Dad gave me were from him memory, and some of what he told me didn't exist anymore, so I was on my own. I got some directions from a sky cap, and one of the buses I took went within a block of where Castro was staying, and I think every cop in New York was on security for Castro. I had to take the subway for part of it, and I got yelled at by a subway cop for traveling alone in New York at night by subway. I was in college and had a suitcase and looked lost, which I pretty much was. They stayed with me on the platform and had me get on the subway with a conductor on it. I made it to my Grandmother's house eventually, and my parents made it there from upstate New York by the time I made it there from the airport. They were quite relieved when I got there.