Moussaoui appeals, calling plea invalid

[CGowen]

Lawyers claim he pleaded guilty without seeing secret evidence


By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Lawyers urged Zacarias Moussaoui not to plead guilty to terrorism charges. They just couldn't tell him why.

In newly filed court documents, Moussaoui argues that court-imposed secrecy undermined his ability to present an adequate defense. His new lawyers say Moussaoui's guilty plea should be thrown out and a new trial should be convened for the man who once claimed to have been a part of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist plot.

Moussaoui was not allowed to see the classified evidence against him and was shut out from closed-door hearings in which that evidence was laid out.

Defense lawyers say they were barred from even discussing with Moussaoui evidence that could help prove his innocence. They say Moussaoui faced an unconstitutional choice: plead guilty or go to trial without knowing the evidence.

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/5573527.html

[Twist_U_Up]

1. add on the taser belt he wore through trial...........

and I believe we have a patsy.

[JackRiddler]

2. Ugh... I remember that...

What will it be like when the Guantanomo show trials start?!

[CGowen]

3. wrong answer ...bzzzzz ? n/t

[CJCRANE]

4. The so-called "20th hijacker".

I never understood that. He wasn't part of the actual 9/11 plot so how could he have been the 20th hijacker?
And besides there is another 20th hijacker at Gitmo.

[CGowen]

5. It's like Al-Qaeda No.3, a very sought after position...n/t