Moussaoui to miss execution?
Moussaoui Death Penalty Case May Be Tossed
MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN,
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – 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.</i>
Amazing. 4.5 years since 9/11, and this is the closest to a conviction the feds have come in the case, and now they are getting beaten up by the judge for illegally coaching witnesses.
Imagine if this had been a real case- you know, with evidence, and witnesses, and all those “legal” things, instead of the charade the world has been forced to endure since the first plane hit the tower.
