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Mohammed Bouyeri's trial for shooting, stabbing and almost beheading Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh seemed a mere formality. The prosecutor's case was watertight and Bouyeri had instructed his lawyer not to act in his defense at last week's trial. These expectations were overturned when Bouyeri, 27, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin, made a surprise statement at the close of the trial. Clad in a black jellaba and Palestinian-style black-and-white kaffiyeh head scarf, Bouyeri aimed his words mainly at Van Gogh's mother, Anneke, who had expressed her anger and contempt for the defendant...
FROM HISTORIAN TO LAWYER...
...between stints with the government, Roberts worked at the law firm Hogan & Hartson, where he established himself as a top appellate lawyer with an impressive record—he has argued a total of 39 cases before the Supreme Court, winning 25 of them...
Then the lights went out. On Thursday morning, Chris Lowry, 17, a lawyer's clerk, was sitting on a Piccadilly Line train outside King's Cross when "a fat blast came from the front end. I actually think I fell out of my seat at first--all I could see was smoke." Eventually, emergency workers moved passengers to the back of the train and up into the station, where Lowry remembers "trails of blood going up the stairways." Nicolas Thioulouse, 27, a French architect, was in a train under Edgware Road station when a bomb exploded on a train...
ACKNOWLEDGED. BY PRINCE ALBERT II, 47, unmarried only son and successor to the late Prince Rainier III of Monaco; a son, ALEXANDRE, now 22 months, from his relationship with former Air France flight attendant Nicole Coste; in a statement released by the Prince's Paris-based lawyer. Though the boy will inherit a substantial chunk of the billionaire Prince's fortune--half if he is sole heir--he is not in line for the throne, which under Monaco's law requires "direct and legitimate" descendants...