Feds tried to zap 9/11 kin for Zac (Moussaoui)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/428893p-361601c.html

Government prosecutors fought to bar a dozen 9/11 family members from testifying that Al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui's life should be spared, the Daily News has learned.

In April, prosecutors lined up 45 relatives of Sept. 11 victims to testify in support of Moussaoui's execution, and the government was hailed for giving the families a voice in court.

Behind the scenes, however, they argued in closed hearings that U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema should not allow other 9/11 families to testify for the defense.

"The defense wants these witnesses only to sneak in something about their anti-death penalty views the court should not allow it," prosecutors wrote in an April 3 pleading unsealed this week.

Brinkema ruled in favor of the family witnesses that defense lawyers recruited. Most spoke about forgiveness and reconciliation, implying that Moussaoui's death would serve no purpose.

[gratuitous]

1. How did the prosecutors know?

The government attorneys tried to bar defense witnesses using as a reason that the witnesses would "sneak in something about their anti-death penalty views." How did they know what the witnesses would testify to?

Odd, don't you think?

[Rose Siding]

2. Quintessential bushbotism.

Sept 11 vics are only credible when their grief supports the bushbots.