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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zacarias Moussaoui was saved from a death sentence by a single juror who never explained his vote to other members of the jury that sent the September 11 conspirator to prison for life, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The foreman of the 12-person federal jury told the newspaper that the panel voted 11-1, 10-2 and 10-2 in favor of the death penalty on the three charges for which Moussaoui was eligible for execution. A unanimous vote on any one of the...
By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge on Monday denied a request to withdraw his guilty plea by Zacarias Moussaoui, who was sentenced last week to life in prison for conspiracy in connection with the September 11 attacks. Moussaoui had asked District Judge Leonie Brinkema to allow him to withdraw his plea and said he lied when he testified that he was meant to be part of the hijacking plot. But Brinkema issued an order denying the request based on a federal rule that...
By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge on Monday denied a request to withdraw his guilty plea by Zacarias Moussaoui, who was sentenced last week to life in prison for conspiracy in connection with the September 11 attacks. Moussaoui had asked District Judge Leonie Brinkema to allow him to withdraw his plea and said he lied when he testified that he was meant to be part of the hijacking plot. But Brinkema issued an order denying the request based on a federal rule that...
By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui will do little to curb the threat of terrorism or make America safer, the architect of the secret U.S. program to whisk al Qaeda suspects abroad said on Thursday. As debate begins over the consequences of Moussaoui's conviction and the prosecutors' failure to win the death penalty, other analysts said the outcome may strengthen the hand of hawks who support secret...
By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui will do little to curb the threat of terrorism or make America safer, the architect of the secret U.S. program to whisk al Qaeda suspects abroad said on Thursday. As debate begins over the consequences of Moussaoui's conviction and the prosecutors' failure to win the death penalty, other analysts said the outcome may strengthen the hand of hawks who support secret...
By Deborah Charles ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - A U.S. jury has reached a verdict in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who faces the death penalty for conspiracy in connection with the September 11 attacks, the court said on Wednesday. "The jury in U.S. v. Moussaoui has sent a note to the judge indicating they have reached a verdict," the court said in a statement. The verdict will be read at 4:30 p.m.(/2030 GMT) He will be sentenced Thursday at 10 a.m.(/1400 GMT)....
By Gerard Bon PARIS (Reuters) - Veteran French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen launched his 2007 presidential bid on Monday declaring his anti-immigrant views were gaining ground and that government scandals showed France was now a "banana republic." Le Pen, who shocked France by coming second in the 2002 race against President Jacques Chirac, told a rally outside the Paris Opera that the tough stand on immigration taken by his right-wing rivals showed strong public support for a...
By Deborah Charles ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - A judge on Friday admonished a juror in the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty case for looking up a word in the dictionary but said it would not impact deliberations in the only case brought in the United States in connection with the September 11 attacks. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said one of the 12-person jury had admitted to looking up the word "aggravating" in an online dictionary. Brinkema did not identify the juror....
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - A jury considering whether to recommend the execution of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui resumed deliberation on Friday after a day's break because of a sick juror. The panel of nine men and three women returned to the courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia -- just a few miles from the Pentagon which was one of the targets of the September 11 hijackings -- and began its fourth day of deliberation. The jury did not deliberate on Thursday after...
By Deborah Charles ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - The U.S. jury considering whether September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui should be executed was sent home without deliberating on Thursday after a juror called in sick. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said the sick juror had to see a doctor and would not be able to get to the court to continue deliberations, which began on Monday. She said if the juror -- one of the nine men on the 12-person panel -- was feeling well enough,...
