Constitutional Law

Moussaoui Judge Defends Courts Ability to Handle Terror Trials

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema defended the federal courts' ability to handle terror trials while condemning the government's decision to seek a death sentence for Zacarias Moussaoui as politically motivated. In addition, Judge Brinkema said the idea of a national security court should "send shivers down the spine of everyone" and criticized the use of torture to obtain evidence because "coerced testimony is inherently unreliable."

Full post as published by ACS Blog on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).