03-14-2003, 12:41 AM
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Cheesesteak GURU! Wiz with
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Tullytown
Posts: 3,325
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This is a true outrage!
Judge Limits Sites To View Terror Trial
Prosecution's Expansion Effort Rejected
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Victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks can watch the closed-circuit link of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui at courthouses in Washington, New York and New Jersey, a federal judge has ruled, rejecting efforts by federal prosecutors to extend the viewing sites to Pennsylvania, California and Massachusetts
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Fiona Havlish of Bucks County, Pa., whose husband, Donald, was killed in the World Trade Center attack, said she was especially angry that Brinkema, in a letter on Tuesday to Paul J. McNulty, the U.S. attorney in Alexandria, said she chose Newark as one of the sites because of its "relative proximity to Pennsylvania."
"This is ridiculous. I'm really furious," Havlish said. "Newark is 20 seconds outside of Manhattan. It's the first train stop. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense."
Brinkema did not return telephone calls about her decision. In the letter to McNulty, she said financial and logistical hurdles, including intensified security and the need to use expensive encryption technology to guard against pirating of the transmission from the courtroom, means that "the number of transmission locations must be kept to a minimum." The judge selected federal courthouses in Washington, Manhattan, Long Island and Newark as viewing sites.
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