Federal Appeals Court Cancels 9/11 Plotters’ Plea Deals, Deepening Legal Morass
Federal Appeals Court Cancels 9/11 Plotters’ Plea Deals, Deepening Legal Morass In a significant legal development, a federal appeals court has overturned the plea deals previously struck with three men accused of orchestrating the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit casts fresh uncertainty over the long-stalled case, which has been mired in pretrial proceedings for over two decades at Guantánamo Bay. The court’s decision centered…