Court TV Seeks to Broadcast Terror Trial
Court TV is asking a federal judge for permission to broadcast the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the first person indicted in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Federal rules explicitly prohibit TV cameras in courtrooms, but lawyers for Court TV say that prohibition is unconstitutional.
“Through television, the means exist for all Americans to exercise their constitutional right to observe this trial,” wrote Court TV attorney Lee Levine, in a motion filed Friday in federal court in Alexandria.
Bryan Sierra, a spokesman for the Justice Department, declined to comment.
Moussaoui is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 2. He is charged with conspiring with Osama bin Laden and others to commit the Sept. 11 attacks and could get the death penalty if convicted.
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