Monday, March 13, 2006

They couldn't leave a slam dunk alone

An angry federal judge unexpectedly recessed the death penalty trial al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to consider whether government violations of her rules against coaching witnesses should remove the death penalty as an option. The development came at the opening of the fifth day of the trial as the government informed the judge and the defense over the weekend that a lawyer for the Federal Aviation Administration had coached four government witnesses.

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