Moussaoui Changes His Mind About His Guilty Plea
Posted on May 8, 2006
Update: Judge smartly denies the request!
I guess he had second thoughts on that whole “America Lost” stuff too? Moussaoui is now asking for a new trial!
Less than a week after he was jailed for life over the September 11 attacks, Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui submitted a motion asking to withdraw his guilty plea so he can have a new trial.
“Moussaoui wishes to withdraw his guilty plea because when he entered the plea his ‘understanding of the American legal system was completely flawed’,” his lawyers said in the motion.
Moussaoui said in an affadavit “I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial” in the United States.
“Even with Americans as jurors,” he went on, “I can have the opportunity to prove that I did not have any knowledge of and was not a member of the plot to hijack planes and crash them into buildings on September 11, 2001.”
“I wish to withdraw my guilty plea and ask the court for a new trial to prove my innocence of the September 11 plot,” he said.
His lawyers sure are eager to keep him free. This is ridiculous! Perhaps he misses the spotlight? Who knows? Knowing how the court system in our country is, they will probably give him a re-trial, and we will all be treated to Moussaoui Part Duex! These terrorists are trained on playing games with our media and lawyers.
Bryan Preston at Hot Air is on the same wavelength!
One thing these terrorists have been trained to do–and yes, in spite of his odd after-last-minute change of heart, Moussaoui is a terrorist trained by al Qaeda–is game the Western media and legal system. They’re trained to lie about what happens to them in prison in order to gain the sympathy of the likes of the ACLU and Amnesty International, which then write up scathing reports that fuel bogus stories about Koran flushing in Newsweek, and the terrorists are trained to use whatever means they can find to mess with the courts including using their lawyers to shuttle messages in and out of prison. Right, Lynne Stewart? So today’s retraction is probably just another terrorist gambit. And for that reason, it may gain some traction.
After the shock of the jury’s decision on this one I stated that I didn’t think he even needed a trial, meaning that this should have been taken care of in a military tribunal. Bryan also agrees with me there, calling him “he poster boy for handling all terrorist cases via military tribunals.”
Civilian courts just aren’t the proper venue for dealing with war criminals. Not that anyone in Washington has the spine to make that argument now.
Well Bryan, you thank the ACLU, and their ilk for that too!
Now that Zacarias Moussaoui has learned how soft and stupid some American juries can be, he wants to withdraw his guilty plea and try again.
Indepundit puts it most simply: “Too late.”
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As far as I know, you can’t change your plea after the trial is concluded because you aren’t happy with the verdict. Why is it that he is wanting to change his plea? Didn’t he claim that he won?
He must have changed his mind on that one too Gribbit!
“His lawyers sure are eager to keep him free.”
The plea decision is up to the client.
“The plea decision is up to the client.”
This time it was up to the judge and the judge said he was 2 days too late.