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Amidst all the attention, Davey remains optimistic that within the courtroom itself, his side will emerge victorious...
...debate about the proper place of God in public life, discretion is no virtue. Judge Moore has been exuberantly defying court orders regarding the Ten Commandments since his early days as a judge in Etowah County when he defended his right to display a homemade rosewood plaque in his courtroom. That crusade helped him get elected as Alabama's chief justice in 2000, so it should have surprised no one when he wheeled the 5,280-lb. monument of the Commandments into the courthouse rotunda in a midnight ceremony and then forced a showdown by refusing to remove...
...followed up with a courtroom-rocking, 50-minute discourse in which he prayed for "the destruction of the United States" and "the destruction of the Jewish people and state," accused his court-appointed attorneys of trying to get him executed and said he wanted to be his own lawyer. Brinkema warned him of the consequences, including the fact that he would not have access to the mountain of classified material that his lawyers, who had got security clearances, would be able to use. She then ordered a mental-competency exam, which concluded that he was capable of making the decision...
...like "Motion to Stop the Cynical Comedy, Parody, of Justice Directed by DJ Brinkema," filed in July 2002, and "Motion to Stop the Pervert Game of the Fascist Bureau of Inquisition Against My Distraught 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...
...Number of courtroom seats available to the public at the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad...