Moussaoui jurors warned to avoid dictionaries

The judge in Zacarias Moussaoui’s death penalty trial admonished jurors today to avoid looking up words in the dictionary after learning that one went on the internet to see what “aggravating” means.

How aggravating and mitigating factors balance out in the jurors’ minds is key to their deliberations, which resumed after a day-long break called because one juror was sick.