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Fourth Circuit affirms convictions and sentence of Zacarias Moussaoui

By Douglas A. Berman

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.  The unanimous panel ruling in US v. Moussaoui, No.06-4494 (4th Cir. Jan 4, 2010) (available here), runs 77 pages and gets started this way: 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.  In a subsequent sentencing proceeding, the jury declined to impose the death penalty and the district court sentenced Moussaoui to life imprisonment without the possibility of release on all six counts, with the sentence on the first count to be served consecutively to the sentences on the other counts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).