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...delegation voted against the resolution, which passed 347-65. Among those voting “no” were Rep. Michael E. Capuano, Cambridge’s congressman, Rep. Barney Frank ’61, one of the nation’s most prominent openly gay politicians, and Rep. Martin T. Meehan, the chief sponsor of legislation to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Frank pushed through a change to the law in 1999, removing financial aid funds from the money affected by the Solomon Amendment. The House...
...Carla J. Martin has taken most of the flak this week for the potential collapse of the Justice Department?s death penalty case against confessed Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. It is after all Martin, a former flight attendant turned government aviation lawyer, who stands accused of improperly coaching witnesses scheduled to testify in Moussaoui's sentencing trial, e-mailing trial transcripts and offering advice on how to testify...
...trouble Martin allegedly caused federal prosecutors - who have told the court they were unaware of her actions and will try next week to get Judge Leonie Brinkema to reverse her decision barring the seven witnesses' testimony - critics claim Martin is only one symptom of much deeper problems in the way the Justice Department has handled the high-profile terror case...
...government attorneys working on the case, many from outside Justice, simply got too large; the more lawyers the prosecution has working on a case, many attorneys argue, the more chances a serious mistake will be made. Martin herself works as a Transportation Security Administration lawyer, and prosecutors say she had no substantive involvement with the case, simply locating TSA files and helping arrange witness interviews. Lawyers who know her say she's an aggressive attorney but has confined herself to work in civil and administrative law, which has looser rules for admissible evidence than in criminal law. The case...
...Martin's attorney, Roscoe C. Howard Jr., released a statement Thursday claiming his client, who was placed on paid administrative leave from her job Thursday and could face civil or criminal charges, has been "viciously vilified by assertions from the prosecution." What prosecutors have told the judge she did, the statement said, is not "the whole truth." Howard said Martin is preparing her response, which "will show a very different, full picture of her intentions, her conduct and her tireless dedication to a fair trial...