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...makings of a suspenseful swashbuckler: a mysterious ship, sunken treasure, the threat of midnight raids and the pillaging of priceless cultural artifacts. But the ongoing struggle between American shipwreck salvage company Odyssey Marine and the Spanish government has instead become a classic courtroom drama. On Thursday, a U.S. District court in Tampa, Floridam ruled that Odyssey Marine must reveal to Spain all the information it possesses that could help identify three historic shipwrecks, including the one Odyssey has code-named, with appropriate flourish, the Black Swan. The sunken ship, which Madrid suspects was Spanish, has been sharply disputed since April...
...home state of North Carolina that John Edwards learned how to fight back, to beat the moneyed interests that are keeping regular Americans down. Remember, in most of the South the union movement is weak, so for working people, the only path to justice often runs through the courtroom. It was there that John Edwards, time and again defeated companies that through negligence or malice were doing harm to regular people...
...specialty, charming and winning over skeptical juries to side with his clients on case after case in North Carolina. But for all Edwards' gifts with language, for all his skill at speaking on behalf of the ordinary men, women and children he had represented in the courtroom, he was strangely at a loss when it came to framing a case for himself...
...president will not receive a free and fair trial. The court can do what it likes, but Peruvians will be the final jurors and they will vindicate him," said Rep. Carlos Raffo, a member of a pro-Fujimori congressional caucus. Fujimori's opponents, however, see the ex-president's courtroom behavior as evidence that he is still desperately trying to regain power...
...abuse of power. Hours into the presentation of witnesses and evidence, Fujimori was given the chance to speak, asked by the judge to enter his plea of guilt or innocence. After serenely requesting a bit of extra time, Fujimori launched into an outraged howl, screaming at the surprised courtroom that he had saved Peru and rejected out of hand the charges. "I totally reject the charges. I am innocent. I do not accept this accusation," he bellowed, before taking his seat...