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...GERMANY Courtroom Curses The first major trial of suspected Islamic terrorists linked to the al-Qaeda network got off to a turbulent start in Frankfurt as the court evicted one of the accused for shouting threats and insults in Arabic. Four Algerians face charges of planning to detonate a bomb in the French city of Strasbourg in December 2000. Federal prosecutors say they and a fifth accused all trained in camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1998 and belonged to an international terrorist organization called the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. The trial is expected to last...
...former Treasury Secretary Summers and Sen, an economics professor at Cambridge University, discussed the challenges of economic development, world poverty, free market economies and human rights before an overflow crowd at the Law School’s Ames Courtroom...
Following a full month of sound and fury, justice arrived last week with a silent plea. At the end of a case marked by sensational testimony and courtroom theatrics, verdicts were handed down in the trial of Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, a couple whose huge Presa Canario dogs brutally killed a neighbor in the hallway of their San Francisco apartment building last year. According to a witness, Diane Whipple, 33, had screamed for aid as she fought the beasts. Both Noel and Knoller sat stone-faced in court as each was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and keeping...
...dictator Suharto. After four months in prison awaiting trial, he arrived for the opening legal arguments last week at a central Jakarta courthouse looking rested and a little plumper. He slumped lazily in his seat, repeatedly grinning and gesturing at the bank of reporters packed into the stifling hot courtroom...
...making the process pricey when family members pay for hourly legal expertise to help them sort through, say, the tools in the garage. Judge DeShazo's husband, probate lawyer and mediator Ed Smith, has handled thousands of estates in his 38-year career (though never in his wife's courtroom). Smith says he has seen case after case in which people are willing to whittle away at their inheritance in order to try to win a fight over heirlooms. "When I mediate these estate cases, I draw a big circle on an easel for them. Then I tell them...