Moussaoui Wants to Withdraw Guilty Plea
Charles Johnson
Mon May 8, 2006 at 6:45 pm PDT • Views: 188
It took only a few days for Zacarias Moussaoui to begin trying to work the American legal system again: Moussaoui asks for new trial. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Less than a week after he was jailed for life over the September 11 attacks, Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui submitted a motion asking to withdraw his guilty plea so he can have a new trial.
“Moussaoui wishes to withdraw his guilty plea because when he entered the plea his ‘understanding of the American legal system was completely flawed’,” his lawyers said in the motion.
Moussaoui said in an affadavit “I now see that it is possible that I can receive a fair trial” in the United States.
In other words, he now sees what suckers we are. And he thinks we might be big enough suckers to give him another trial.
I wish I were completely confident that he’s wrong.
“Even with Americans as jurors,” he went on, “I can have the opportunity to prove that I did not have any knowledge of and was not a member of the plot to hijack planes and crash them into buildings on September 11, 2001.”
“I wish to withdraw my guilty plea and ask the court for a new trial to prove my innocence of the September 11 plot,” he said.
Frank says: