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crimresearch · 21st March 2005, 08:03 AM

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, rejecting a challenge to the Bush administration's power to bar potentially key witnesses from the only U.S. defendant charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Justices let stand a lower court ruling that allowed the government to pursue the death penalty while restricting Moussaoui's direct access to three al-Qaida terror captives. The lower court, citing national security concerns, said Moussaoui could use government-prepared summaries from the captives but not interview them.....
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...otus_moussaoui
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So now you can be convicted on secret evidence after a trial where you can't cross examine the witnesses against you, and the government will decide legal issues like precedent, appeals, and sentencing.

Looks like I will be saying 'I told you so' for as long as that sort of thing is permitted. And I suspect that it will fall on the same deaf ears as before the election.

21st March 2005, 08:03 AM	#1
crimresearch Alumbrado Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 10,618	Witnesses? We don't got to show you no steenkin' witnesses By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, rejecting a challenge to the Bush administration's power to bar potentially key witnesses from the only U.S. defendant charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Justices let stand a lower court ruling that allowed the government to pursue the death penalty while restricting Moussaoui's direct access to three al-Qaida terror captives. The lower court, citing national security concerns, said Moussaoui could use government-prepared summaries from the captives but not interview them..... http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...otus_moussaoui --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So now you can be convicted on secret evidence after a trial where you can't cross examine the witnesses against you, and the government will decide legal issues like precedent, appeals, and sentencing. Looks like I will be saying 'I told you so' for as long as that sort of thing is permitted. And I suspect that it will fall on the same deaf ears as before the election.
crimresearch Alumbrado Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 10,618