Word: brinkema
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...judicial front in Alexandria, Virginia, where alleged "20 th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court to six counts of conspiracy stemming from his alleged involvement in the events of September 11th. Moussaoui actually chose not to offer a plea of any kind; however, Judge Leonie Brinkema said that she understood that to be a not guilty plea, and Moussaoui?s lawyer concurred. Moussaoui is the first and remains the only person to be officially charged in connection with the attacks of September 11 th. He faces the death penalty as the maximum punishment for four...
...wasn't exactly by the book, but Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person charged in the September 11th terror attacks, entered a not guilty plea at his arraignment Wednesday morning. The man alleged by federal authorities to be the "20th hijacker" stood before Judge Leonie Brinkema in a federal courtroom just miles from the site of the Pentagon attack, and told the court, "In the name of Allah I do not have anything to plea. I enter no plea." So Brinkema entered a not guilty plea for Moussaoui...
...case that first focused national attention on the "road rage" phenomenon, Brinkema sentenced Narkey Keval Terry to a whopping 10 years, more than 3 times the recommended sentence, for his role in a 1996 highway showdown on the George Washington Memorial Parkway that killed three drivers. That sentence, for involuntary manslaughter, was also overturned, but the appeals court left open the possibility that Brinkema could find other grounds for such a harsh term. Which...
...Twice in recent years Brinkema has struck down bars on access to Internet porn as First Amendment violations. In one case she nixed a Virginia county's ban on access to such material in its public libraries and in the other, she said that Virginia employees couldn't be barred from accessing porn sites on state-owned computers. Her decision in the state employees' case was overturned...
...graduate of Cornell University's law school who has also done graduate work in philosophy and library services, Brinkema - known to her friends as "Deedee" - hasn't handled many high-profile national security cases. But earlier this year she sentenced a former Australian intelligence agent to 15 years for attempted espionage. Jean-Philippe Wispelaere pleaded guilty to selling more than 900 classified U.S. documents for $120,000 to an FBI agent posing as a foreign...