The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the 22 year sentence of Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who convicted and sentenced in 2005 of planning to bomb LAX airport on the millenium, as being too lenient because he didn't follow through with, and recanted, some of his cooperation. Shorter ver ...

The Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, which tried Zacarias Moussaoui, Jose Padilla and two of his co-conspirators, and Professor Sami al-Arian, are obvious choices to me ...

, since it only has 600,000 residents, but the Eastern District of Virginia has hosted many terrorism trials, including that of Zacarias Moussaoui ...

In an update to our June 20, 2009 blog entitled "Putnam County Manslaughter Charge In Brewster DWI Crash", Conses Garcia-Zacarias, the 35 year old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who pled guilty to two counts of New York vehicular homicide in the deaths of Lori Donahue and her 8 year old daughter K ...

MOUSSAOUI CONVICTION UPHELD. So is this support for the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York?

A strategic choice that terrorism conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui made in a move to save his life — pleading guilty to six charges that he had a role in the 9/11 Al Qaeda attacks on the U ...

FindLaw: "Rejecting a bid by convicted al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to overturn his guilty plea, a federal appeals court ...

Through a ruling that might provide a boost for the decision by the Obama Administration to try other 9/11 conspirators in federal court, today the Fourth Circuit has affirmed the convictions and sentence of Zacarias Moussaoui ... Moussaoui available here Zacarias Moussaoui pled guilty to six criminal conspiracy counts arising from the al Qaeda terrorist organization’s plot to use commercial aircraft to commit terrorist attacks in this country, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 ...

Through a ruling that might provide a boost for the decision by the Obama Administration to try other 9/11 conspirators in federal court, today the Fourth Circuit has affirmed the convictions and sentence of Zacarias Moussaoui ... Moussaoui available here Zacarias Moussaoui pled guilty to six criminal conspiracy counts arising from the al Qaeda terrorist organization’s plot to use commercial aircraft to commit terrorist attacks in this country, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 ...

This is the years-long phase that nearly destroyed the civilian prosecution of 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui -- and might well have succeeded in destroying it had he not unexpectedly pleaded guilty ...