BREAKING NEWS: Government barred from seeking death penalty on Mouss.

> BREAKING NEWS
Judge bars government from seeking death penalty against Zacarias Moussaoui in connection with 9/11 terror attacks. Details soon.

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He's just a scape goat.

America might as well kill someone since they cannot find anyone else.

Originally posted by dragonrider
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I saw it on Yahoo!

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Its on CNN Dragonrider, looks like i scooped ya

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 2 � A federal judge on Thursday barred the government from seeking the death penalty for terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, inflicting a major defeat on prosecutors for for refusing to let the defendant question three al-Qaida prisoners.

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE Leonie Brinkema rejected a more severe option to dismiss all charges. The government actually had sought a dismissal so that there could be a quick appeal of her earlier ruling granting Moussaoui access to the prisoners.
She said the government�s notice of intent to seek a sentence of death must be stricken and prosecutors cannot present any evidence or argument that the defendant was involved in, or had knowledge of, planning the Sept. 11 attacks.
Brinkema postponed the effect of her ruling so the government could appeal.
The government had been anticipating a dismissal, telling Brinkema that throwing out the charges would be the quickest route to intervention by an appellate court. Moussaoui and his court-appointed defense team had asked for dismissal.
Brinkema was responding to government defiance of her rulings in January and August, which granted Moussaoui access to the prisoners through a satellite connection.
Brinkema concluded that Moussaoui�s constitutional right to potentially favorable witnesses took precedence over the government�s need to protect classified information that could be revealed in testimony by the captives.
Prosecutors had argued that national security would be gravely harmed if any details were revealed about the sensitive interrogations of the prisoners, who are held in undisclosed locations outside the United States.
The Bush administration could decide to move Moussaoui�s case to a military tribunal, where national security would likely trump a defendant�s access to witnesses. However, that decision would likely be made only after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Richmond, Va. ruled on the witness-access issue. The side that loses in the appellate court could ask the Supreme Court to intervene.
Two of the prisoners were among Osama bin Laden�s top operatives, Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and a key planner of the attacks, Ramzi Binalshibh. The third is Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, a suspected paymaster for al-Qaida.
Prosecutors argued that interrupting their interrogations would be a sensitive matter for the United States, because intelligence officials are learning valuable information about al-Qaida�s operations.
Mohammed, for instance, told U.S. officials the Sept. 11 plot was five years in the making and that a wave of suicide attacks was supposed to follow, The Associated Press reported after reviewing interrogation reports.

Courtesy MSNBC

Damn judges don't know crap!
I hate how they always get bribed then remain judges for the next fifty years and screw up the judicial system.
It'll be nice if we ever get to the point where all crimes are considered a felony.
Taxes will triple to compensate for all of the prisoners in prison.

They should take him to an international court and try him with crimes against humanity, that always works.


- Tass

The government doesn't have much of a case. They wanted it dismissed so they could declare brotha man an enemy combatant and haul him off to Gitmo.