Non-Rhyming Fort Dix Case Goes To Jury

Hey, remember those six dudes charged with plotting to attack an army base (a foolproof plan, I know)? No? Well, so has everyone, maybe because one of them pled guilty and they no longer have a cool name like the Fort Dix Six. The Fort Dix Five? Well, now that’s not very good.

Anyway, the case of the Fort Dix Five is with the jury:

During closing arguments over two full days, after eight weeks of testimony, the jury heard both sides parse the defendants’ words and actions.

Prosecutors at the front end — and during rebuttal at the back end — asserted the five showed a “powerful motive about their state of mind in launching a jihad.”

Each of the defense lawyers used the same secretly recorded conversations from two undercover informants to bolster their view that the informants were instigators. As one put it, they ‘pushed, prodded, goaded,’ and ultimately ‘insulted’ the defendants to turn any idle chatter into action.

Fortunately for the government, I am sure everyone on the jury could never see them doing anything incompetent. I think. Umm. Hmm.

Fate of ‘Fort Dix Five’ Now in Hands of Jury [KYW 1060]