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While experienced litigators know how to prep witnesses without crafting their testimony, Martin crossed a line, informing her experts what she would tell the jury and feeding them transcripts from the trial in violation of an explicit order from U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema. It was no small mistake. When Brinkema found out, she angrily barred all aviation-security witnesses from testifying--experts prosecutors were counting on to make their case that had Moussaoui shared what he knew, officials could have prevented 9/11, and since he didn't, he should be executed...
...they aren't thinking in terms of securing earmarks so much as they are of securing company for the night. Sheer physical appeal (and proximity) may be what accounts for most of the attraction, but neither the youthful carousers nor the not-so-youthful ones would be in the District if they weren't also interested in playing a, well, deeper game. This is not to say that someone's power or influence can make him or her attractive if last call can't. But sometimes the favors a person can do you aren't as important as simply understanding...
...having already plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. The trial’s latest revelation was that Carla J. Martin, a lawyer for the Transportation Security Administration, had coached several aviation officials who were scheduled to testify for the prosecution. In light of these facts, District Judge Leonie Brinkema last Tuesday decided to exclude the testimony of any witnesses who could have offered information about what steps might have been taken to prevent the 9/11 attacks had Moussaoui been truthful when arrested three weeks prior. On Friday, she reconsidered and decided to allow testimony from seven...
...bodies began to show up early last week. On Monday, 34 corpses were found. In the darkness of Tuesday morning, 15 more men, between the ages of 22 and 40 were found in the back of a pickup truck in the al-Khadra district of western Baghdad. They had been hanged. By daybreak, 40 more bodies were found around the city, most bearing signs of torture before the men were killed execution-style. The most gruesome discovery was an 18-by-24-foot mass grave in the Shi'ite slum of Kamaliyah in east Baghdad containing the bodies...
...Tuesday, Federal District Court Judge James Ware ordered Google to turn over a sampling of users’ search queries to the Justice Department. The government claims it needs Google’s data to show that young people are getting around software intended to prevent them from seeing pornography. As with any case that raises privacy concerns, Ware was responsible for weighing competing claims: Google’s right to protect its data against the government’s need for information to enforce (and, in this situation, evaluate) its laws. In this case Ware made the wrong decision...