>Home>News Center>World
         
 

US seeks reversal of Moussaoui ruling
(AP)
Updated: 2006-03-16 08:48

Prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday to reconsider her decision to toss out half of the government's case against confessed terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. They acknowledged that altering the judge's ruling is their only hope of salvaging the death-penalty case.


In this artist's rendering, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema listens to testimony from attorney Carla Martin, regarding the coaching of witnesses, as Zacarius Moussaoui sits in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, March 14, 2006. [AP]
In a motion filed with U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, prosecutors said the aviation security evidence she barred because a government lawyer coached the witnesses "goes to the very core of our theory of the case."

At the very least, the prosecutors argued they should be allowed to present a newly designated aviation security witness who had no contact with the offending lawyer. They said this would "allow us to present our complete theory of the case, albeit in imperfect form."

"The public has a strong interest in seeing and hearing it (aviation security evidence), and the court should not eliminate it from the case, particularly not ... where other remedies are available," they wrote Brinkema.

There was no immediate response from the judge, but she had indicated late Tuesday that she had time available Thursday to consider such a motion if it were made.

Prosecutors argued the sanctions imposed Tuesday were unnecessarily severe. The judge barred several key witnesses from testifying as punishment for the government's misconduct.

Brinkema's sanctions make it "impossible for us to present our theory of the case to the jury," the prosecutors said, adding that the barred testimony "is one of the two essential and interconnected components of our case."

They also emphasized that all the witnesses improperly coached by Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla Martin testified at an evidentiary hearing Tuesday that their testimony would not be influenced by her actions.

The aviation security evidence was one of two parts of the prosecution's case: offensive and defensive measures they argue the government would have taken if Moussaoui had not lied to FBI agents about his terrorist connections when arrested in Minnesota three weeks before al-Qaida's Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They say these measures combined would have prevented at least one death that day on which nearly 3,000 were killed as four hijacked jetliners were flown into the buildings.

They remain free to enter the offensive steps they believed the FBI would have taken in those three weeks to locate 9/11 hijackers in this country. But Brinkema barred them from presenting witnesses or exhibits about what defensive steps federal aviation officials might have taken to enhance airport security during that period.

In their compromise proposal, prosecutors suggested they would drop efforts to argue the Federal Aviation Administration would have barred small knives, like those used by the hijackers, from planes and would have altered its terrorist screening profiles to catch the terrorists.

Instead, they would call one witness, whom they did not identify, who worked at the FAA in August 2001 and could discuss the government's use of "no-fly" lists to bar specific terrorists from planes and how those lists evolved over the years. They said Martin had had no contact with this witness.



Kidnapping spree in Gaza Strip
Israeli army take Jericho jail
Arroyo meets with New Zealand PM Clark
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

US senators to visit China to talk trade issues

 

   
 

Consumption seen as new driver of growth

 

   
 

General aviation sector to scale new heights

 

   
 

Stringent checks on products assured

 

   
 

China sets minimum age for TV contestants

 

   
 

Saddam urges Iraqis to unite against US

 

   
  Saddam's half-brother testifies at trial
   
  Milosevic's body to be flown to Serbia for burial
   
  Iran will resist any UN call to end atomic research
   
  Baghdad police find 80 bodies
   
  Israel seizes Jailed Palestinian militants
   
  Milosevic's funeral to be held in Serbia
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 男女做羞羞的事漫画| 亚洲精品456| 性欧美hd调教| 久久精品国产一区二区三区 | 撕开奶罩揉吮奶头高潮av| 九九视频在线观看视频6| 欧美精品亚洲精品日韩专区va | 真正全免费视频a毛片| 国产三级在线观看免费| 黑人太粗太深了太硬受不了了| 国产精品爽黄69天堂a| 99在线精品视频在线观看| 最近中文字幕高清中文字幕电影二 | 最新亚洲人成网站在线观看| 成人免费在线视频| 久久综合久综合久久鬼色| 欧美性猛交xxx猛交| 亚洲精品国产高清不卡在线| 粉嫩国产白浆在线播放| 啊灬啊别停灬用力啊呻吟| 菠萝蜜视频在线观看免费视频| 国产成人亚洲精品| free哆啪啪免费永久| 国产精欧美一区二区三区| 99热这里只有精品99| 天天拍夜夜拍高清视频| 一区二区三区在线|欧| 成人动漫3d在线观看| 中文字幕日韩欧美一区二区三区| 日本人成18在线播放| 久久天天躁狠狠躁夜夜躁2020 | 好男人影视官网在线www| 两个人看的www免费高清| 我被继夫添我阳道舒服男男| 久久99热精品免费观看动漫| 日本特黄特黄刺激大片| 久久福利视频导航| 日韩一区二区三区精品| 久久精品噜噜噜成人av| 日韩在线视频不卡| 久久精品人人做人人爽电影蜜月|