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Friday, April 22, 2005

BREAKING NEWS - Moussaoui lawyers ask judge to reject guilty plea
Bernard Hibbitts at 12:41 PM ET

[JURIST] AP is reporting that lawyers for September 11 terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui have asked the judge in his case to reject his attempt to plead guilty.

1:02 PM ET - Moussaoui's lawyers argued in a late filing made just hours before a public hearing scheduled for Friday at 3:30 PM ET [media advisory] that he is unfit to make a guilty plea despite the judge's conclusion that he was competent to do so after an earlier meeting with him. The filing itself remains under seal [PDF]. AP has more.






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