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March 13, 2006

Notable developments in Moussaoui trial

As detailed in this AP story, this morning U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema "unexpectedly recessed the death penalty trial of al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to consider whether government violations of her rules against coaching witnesses should remove the death penalty as an option."

UPDATE: Great coverage of the developments in the Moussaoui trial can be found over at TalkLeft here, at How Appealing here and here, and at SCOTUSblog here.

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WHAT?? A Judge actually looking into charges that soulless prosecutors are not playing fair?

What country is this??

Posted by: andy | Mar 13, 2006 1:53:58 PM

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