Supermax! Can I change my plea?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zacarias Moussaoui, who was sentenced last week to life in prison, filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea on Monday and said he lied when he testified that he was meant to be part of the September 11 hijacking plot.

Moussaoui, 37, said in the affidavit filed with the motion that he had pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with the attacks against the advice of his lawyers because his understanding of the U.S. legal system was "completely flawed."

"Because I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial, even with Americans as jurors and that 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 in the affidavit.

Last week a jury of nine men and three women decided that Moussaoui, the only person charged in a U.S. court for the hijacked airliner attacks, should go to prison for life rather than be executed.

One of Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyers said the motion to withdraw the guilty plea was likely a "futile effort."

Moussaoui's lawyers -- who rarely speak to their client -- said in a footnote that they were aware of a federal rule that prohibits a defendant from withdrawing a guilty plea after a sentence is imposed. But they said they filed the motion anyway "given their problematic relationship with Moussaoui."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...w_guilty_plea/


This was so damn funny I just had to post it! :dance: :thumbsup: :smokin:

he should be happy with the sentence he got. only in america

Sucks to be him. What kind of jackass would plead guilty when he didn't do it? He deserves to be in jail for being that stupid.jk

pleaded guilty cause he was forced... testified cause he was shocked... wants a new trail because he realized it wasn't set that he was going to die... he got a fair trial... they couldn't prove he had a part of 9/11 and that's why he's alive... something they didn't report so well on the news... 'they punished him by not allowing him to be a martyr right?'

I love how they convicted him, but not Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged architect of the 9/11 plot, who has been in U.S. custody for more than three years. Ya that sounds reasonable... lets get the crazy guy, but not the guy who planned it. Maybe because this was the planner...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...829882&pl=true

well, they say we cannot try Mohammad because he cannot be tried in a civil court.... well than why can Moussoui? We don't need a military court for him...

It was an attack on america.... american people, not out military... let the american people try the men and find out who did what and what punishment they sould recieve... lets not keep them in prison without hearing their side of the story...


"How will we defeat Communism unless we know what it is? ... We have got to fight it with something better. Not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are a part of America and even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours they have a right to have them, a right to record them and a right to have them in places where they are accessible to others. It is unquestioned or it is not America."

- President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953

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Originally Posted by Gumby

pleaded guilty cause he was forced... testified cause he was shocked...

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I heard that as well. I think I saw it on cnn when one of the reporters stated that Zacarias Moussaoui was actually wearing a shockbelt. I wonder if that is standard policy with all high risk inmates? I wonder if anyone in the courtroom noticed it.

I always thought handcuffs and foot locks and 2 guards wiht guns were enough with high risk people, but I guess to get them to say what you want you need to shock them as well... My guess is they did notice... that's why he didn't get the death...

I mean hell... do you honestly think there is an american out there who would not want to kill the people behind 9/11?? People get killed death sentences every years for killing one or two people... he killed 3000 and yet wasn't put to death??

who the fuck is guilty of killing 3000 people and yet doesn't get death?? the only reason I've heard is because he wasn't going to be a martyr... that's why they didn't kill him...

martrys die for their belief... sitting in an electic chair dying isn't being a martyr, neither is sitting in a jail cell... they gave him the lesser because they couldn't justify giving him death...

"This raises another aspect of the Moussaoui case, one that is of utmost political importance, whatever role it may have played in the juryâ??s deliberations. Why was the bit player Moussaoui on trial, and not those identified as the planners and organizers of the 9/11 attacks who are in US custody? Binalshidh was captured in September 2002, Mohammed six months later. Anything they may have known at the time about Al Qaedaâ??s operations has been extracted from themâ??certainly they can know nothing today of contemporaneous intelligence value. Yet they remain, perhaps indefinitely, in the custody of the CIA, facing no tribunal for their crimes.

There are two likely reasons why Mohammed and Binalshidh have not been brought to trial. The first is that they have been tortured so systematically that they are physically or mentally unfit to participate. The second is that if accorded the opportunity of a public trial, with competent legal counsel, they might well reveal embarrassing facts about the longstanding connections between Al Qaeda and American intelligence agencies.

It was, after all, the CIA which created Al Qaeda through its recruitment of Islamic fundamentalists, including bin Laden, to participate in the anti-Soviet guerrilla war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Moussaoui is too young and too inexperienced to have personal knowledge of these connections, but not so Mohammed and Binalshidh, two of bin Ladenâ??s closest lieutenants.

There is reason to believe, moreover, that these connections did not suddenly cease after bin Ladenâ??s declaration of war on the United States in 1996. There have been unconfirmed reports of CIA-bin Laden contacts as late as the summer of 2001. And the European media has reported US government surveillance of Mohammed Atta throughout the period that the 9/11 attacks were being organized."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...articleId=2415