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Testimony in the trial was set to begin mid-October, but will now start on Jan. 6 of next year.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema made the decision in a ruling that agreed to Moussaoui request for more time to prepare for the case. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, is the only individual charged with being directly involved in the hijackings and attacks that left more than 3,000 dead.Although the public right to a speedy trial is stanley cup a legitimate concern, this court paramount concern is ensuring that the defendant receive a fair trial, Brinkema said in a three-page ruling. The volume and complexity of the evidence in this prosecution fully support the defense request.Under the deal, the court will begin questioning possible jurors on Dec. 9 and will continue until there is a group of 90 prospective juro stanley cup rs. From that pool, the lawyers will find 12 jurors and six alternates to begin hearing the case on Jan. 9.Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia had urged the judge to allow the trial to begin on time. In a brief filed this week, the government argued victims of the attacks as well as Moussaoui deserved a swift trial.The prosecutors said the Sept. 11 attacks were volleys i stanley cup n a declared war against the United States 8230; intended to terrorize the entire nation. Thus, the victims and the nation interest in a fair and speedy trial is beyond dispute.The court is still struggling with t Jsgx WATCH: Jan. 6 Chairman Thompson says there s no idea more un-American than rejecting an election
The board voted 4-3 Tuesday to approve a broad set of changes to Florida 1996 science standards, including new goals for student learning in a variety of subjects. But a debate emerged on one of the 18 big ideas in the new standards: evolution.In a last-minute wording change to standards that had met the approval of authorities such as the National Academy of Science and the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the board affixed a qualifier, the scientific theory of, to evolution and other scientific phenomena.Charles Darwin the stanley cup ory of evolution by natural selection says t stanley cup hat life on Earth, including humans, rose from common ancestry. It widely acc stanley cup epted in the scientific community, but the idea can conflict with the religious version of human history, which seeks to incorporate theological beliefs into the teachings of human development.Florida is one of the few large states with state-level textbook adoption, giving it disproportionate clout with publishers and importance in the national fight over the treatment of evolution in the classroom. The school board debate is the latest in a string of battles that have been playing out across the country for decades. Most recently, in 2005, a federal judge in Pennsylvania found that intelligent design, which says the universe is too complex to be explained by science alone, was a religious theory, and therefore could not be taught in science classes.A Fe