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...Iraqi government's move to change the presiding judge of the trial has the courtroom in some upheaval. Saddam has been ejected three times in as many sessions. The defense attorneys refuse to attend. The new, court-appointed defense attorneys have had just a week to catch up on the complex case, which requires a command of Iraqi military jargon and weapons expertise. In court on Monday, the judge had to repeatedly ask the defense attorneys to clarify their questions and dismissed multiple queries as "irrelevant." The defendants themselves, frustrated at the sometimes-deficient cross-examination by their lawyers, pointed...
...both think that increasingly, science is involved with some of the crucial legal decisions of our time, and the way science appears in the courtroom has often been very problematic,” said Galison in a phone interview from New York...
Graham got his battle testing in a military courtroom, first at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina and then as a chief prosecutor for the Air Force in Europe during the 1980s. He insists that Bush's proposal to tamper with the interpretation of the Geneva Conventions and put detainees on trial without letting them see all the evidence against them would have far-reaching consequences because it would invite future enemies to do the same, or worse, to Americans they capture. That argument has drawn strong support from such powerful voices as Colin Powell, former Chairman...
...intent to damage public property - charges that seem designed as retaliation by officials whose misdeeds he had exposed. Dozens of supporters who had come to stand by him had to spend the afternoon gathered outside the courthouse. Barring their entry were some 200 uniformed police. Also absent from the courtroom were Chen's defense lawyers, three of whom had spent the previous evening confined to a local police station and one of whom would remain there until after Chen's two-hour trial ended with no plea and no verdict...
...Nassau County, N.Y., courtroom last year, almost everyone wept when Blake Slade and Kyle Soukup were sentenced to three years in prison. The youths cried as they apologized. The families of the betrothed who died in the Muttontown crash spoke of justice and forgiveness. Even the judge dabbed his eyes and choked...