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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legal Loose Cannon | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...could such a high-profile case have been handled so sloppily? Certainly Martin, a lawyer for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), was never meant to be a player. In court documents filed after the blowup, prosecutors painted her as a misguided "miscreant" with only a bit part in the government's case preparation--arranging witness interviews and retrieving aviation documents for prosecutors. A former flight attendant who followed her father into law, Martin developed a reputation for tenaciousness both at the TSA and, before that, at the Federal Aviation Administration, where she started working even before she graduated from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legal Loose Cannon | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...Martin's coaching of the Moussaoui witnesses was discovered when one of them became so put off by her persistent e-mails that she showed them to prosecutors, who then informed the judge of Martin's misconduct. "In all my years on the bench, I've never seen a more egregious violation of the rule about witnesses," Brinkema said. She warned Martin that she may face criminal charges. Martin, who has been placed on paid administrative leave by the TSA, wouldn't comment. Her mother, Jean Martin Lay, told TIME that her daughter is "really devastated" by the accusations. Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legal Loose Cannon | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...prosecutors managed to persuade the judge to let them present to the jury a new set of aviation experts who have had no contact with Martin. But the case for executing Moussaoui remains tenuous. Legal experts, and even Brinkema, have questioned whether prosecutors are overreaching in arguing that he should be put to death for what he did not do. Martin, in one of her e-mails, said she doubted that airport screeners could have detected all the short-blade knives the hijackers took aboard, even if Moussaoui had told agents before 9/11 what he knew. Of course, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legal Loose Cannon | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...trial to the covers of major dailies around the world. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, is in the penalty phase of his federal trial, 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...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A Trial Tainted | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

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