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...taught at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, and in 1975 spent a year serving as general counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation, but the University of Miami captured his heart...
...very helpful to me because of his former experience as dean of Stanford Law School,” Lynch said. “He always gave me wise counsel whenever I asked...
...first place, or is the case going exactly the way it should for a government that may have overplayed its hand in the zeal to show it was combatting terrorism? It's unclear whether anyone could have foreseen the twists and turns, such as Moussaoui becoming his own counsel, that began to unravel the government's case. But the case now is pivotal for another reason: it has become a showdown between the basic right of criminal defendants to prove their innocence and national-security concerns that can affect the lives of many others. Here's how this supposedly open...
...Mother," filed last March. The government was not happy, fearing that Moussaoui would use the courtroom as a stage to promote al-Qaeda's cause and perhaps even send coded messages to other terrorists. At the same time, Moussaoui's fired defense lawyers, still on the case as standby counsel, worried that he would fashion his own noose. As the government filed revised indictments, Moussaoui tried to plead no contest or even guilty before Brinkema patiently explained that he would be confessing to all the charges if he did so. Instead, he declared his allegiance to al-Qaeda and Osama...
...composition of the committee—which will be formed in the near future—is unclear, though Bureau of Study Counsel director Charles P. Ducey said he hopes it will include students...