Source: AP via Yahoo News
Zacarias Moussaoui is now claiming he lied on the witness stand about being in the plot and he wants to withdraw his guilty plea because he thinks he can now get a fair trial.
In a motion filed Friday but released Monday, Moussaoui said he testified March 27 he was supposed to hijack a fifth plane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House "even though I knew that was a complete fabrication."
Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyers told the court they filed the motion even though a federal rule "prohibits a defendant from withdrawing a guilty plea after imposition of sentence." They did so anyway because of their "problematic relationship with Moussaoui" and the fact that new lawyers have yet to be appointed to replace them.
Tags: [Zacarias Moussaoui], [Moussaoui wants to withdraw guilty plea], ["I knew that was a complete fabrication"], [9/11]], [problematic relationship with Moussaoui], [prohibits a defendant from withdrawing a guilty plea after imposition of sentence]
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