Moussaoui motion released
on Nov 2, 2005 at 12:45 pm
A U.S. District judge in Alexandria, Va., has now put on the public record a redacted version of a motion by Zacarias Moussaoui asking that his death sentencing proceeding be split into three parts, in order to avoid what he fears is prejudice from government displays of the sights and sounds of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Moussaoui is the only person charged in the U.S. for crimes related to the 9/11 attacks.
His motion, previously under seal, was discussed in this post on Oct. 20. That post was unable to fully discuss the motion because, at the time, the document remained undisclosed.
The redacted version of the motion can be found at the website of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, as a docket entry in 01-455-A, U.S. v. Moussaoui. The motion itself is at docket No. 1337, dated Oct. 3. The judge’s order releasing that document is docket No. 1357, dated Nov. 1.
