Sorry Judge, I Didn't Hear You

Nice bit of reporting in the New York Times piece today on Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla J. Martin, who is apparently responsible for undercutting the government's case against 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui by violating a judge's order against sharing testimony among witnesses in the case. The Times talked to Martin's mother to uncover the reason for the blunder. "She said she just didn't hear the judge," said Jean Martin Lay from her home in Knoxville, Tenn. Her daughter was in the courtroom when the judge issued his order, Lay said, but probably was concentrating on something else "instead of being mindful."