CBS Evening News - 2002-07-25
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[0:00] bank before your question is
[0:01] >> pleads guilty then takes it back.
[0:05] Neither the judge nor prosecutors seem
[0:07] to know what to do. Where does this
[0:09] bizarre case go next? A race against
[0:12] time to try to save nine Pennsylvania
[0:15] coal miners trapped down deep in a
[0:18] cave-in.
[0:20] Today it's the West, but there's a
[0:22] growing danger this scene could be
[0:24] repeated in the droughtplagued
[0:26] Southeast.
[0:27] and moving company ripoffs. They say
[0:31] their belongings were held hostage. What
[0:33] it took to get them back from the moving
[0:35] company tonight.
[0:42] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:46] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:48] headquarters in [music] New York.
[0:50] >> Good evening. For a moment today, it
[0:52] looked like the case of the United
[0:53] States versus Sakarius Masawi might be
[0:56] coming to a quick end. In Virginia
[0:58] federal court, the only person actually
[1:01] charged so far in the September 11th
[1:04] attack on America, pleaded guilty to
[1:06] four of the six charges against him. All
[1:09] four carrying a possible death penalty.
[1:12] But just as the Justice Department was
[1:14] about to declare victory, Misawi
[1:16] withdrew the plea. Neither the judge nor
[1:19] the prosecutors seemed to know where to
[1:21] go with things after that. And as CBS's
[1:23] Joey Chen reports, the court and the
[1:26] case were thrown into chaos.
[1:28] Security was extremely tight at the
[1:30] federal courthouse not far from the
[1:32] Pentagon as Zakarius Mousawi came to
[1:34] offer his guilty p. Extra precautions
[1:37] were also taken with a defendant
[1:39] outfitted with a stun belt under his
[1:41] prison jumpsuit meant to keep him in
[1:43] line. Judge Leany Brinkma began