Posted on 01/29/2004 10:21:04 AM PST by knighthawk
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:22:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
KARLSRUHE, Germany - Lawyers for a Moroccan man convicted of helping the Sept. 11 hijackers demanded a retrial, arguing Thursday in a federal appeals court that their client had been denied a fair trial.
Mounir el Motassadeq, 29, the only person convicted in the attacks worldwide, was sentenced last February to the maximum 15 years in prison for more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder and membership in a terrorist organization. A Hamburg state court ruled he had given logistical help to the Hamburg cell that included suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.
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