Judge Gives Moussaoui Week to Rethink Guilty Plea...

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<h2>Judge Gives Moussaoui Week to Rethink Guilty Plea</h2>
"I am a member of Al Qaeda" pledged to Usama bin Laden, Moussaoui told U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who moments earlier had entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to a third indictment.

Shortly after that, Moussaoui tried to plead guilty.

The arraignment had been scheduled after the government on Tuesday obtained a third indictment against Moussaoui following a new Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty.

Moussaoui is the only individual charged in connection with the attacks.

The original indictment in December accused him of plotting with the 19 hijackers and mimicking their conduct, including enrollment in flight schools.

Should the judge accept Zacarias Moussaoui's guilty plea?

After the June revision in the indictment, Moussaoui tried to plead "no contest," but Brinkema again entered an innocent plea after explaining the term was the equivalent of pleading guilty.

After entering the not guilty plea on his behalf, Brinkema asked Moussaoui if he wanted her to set a new trial date to give him more time to prepare.

Moussaoui said he wanted time to think about it, and the judge suggested that he should consult with court-appointed lawyers who remain in the case despite the judge's decision to let him represent himself.

"I don't have to consult with people who want to undermine my defense," said Moussaoui, who has accused the court-appointed lawyers of seeking to have him executed.

I don't have to take advice from you regarding the way I defend myself."

When the judge started to tell Moussaoui, "All right," he told her in a mocking tone, "Everything is all right.

The judge told Moussaoui that he could negotiate with the government a plea agreement that could avoid the death penalty.

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[Buckley]

Why give this idiot any time to think about it? Would any of us get that kind of chance? What idiocy. Lock him up in a dim cell with only a Bible, some bread and water and call it good.

-Buckley.