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...CONVICTED. LYNNE STEWART, 65, veteran civil rights lawyer and defender of accused terrorists and Mob turncoats, of providing material support to terrorists, perjury and defrauding the U.S. govern-ment; in New York City. For more than 10 years, Stewart was defense counsel for Egyp-tian cleric and convicted terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. Prosecutors argued that Stewart acted as a conduit through which Sheik Rahman communicated with his followers. Stewart claimed the gov-ernment's videotaping of her conversations with her client violated attorney-client privilege...
...hire a lawyer to write to your sister, requesting access to the books? If she balks, consider taking one of the legal options above, depending on the size of your mother's estate and whether you hope ever to improve relations with your sister. Her POA ends with your mother's death. If she's also your mother's executor, however, then you would have to go to probate court for relief. But if you don't act before then, you may be left with nothing but an expensive lawsuit and a hollow feeling in your...
...helpless. Many states offer heirs some protections. In Pennsylvania, notes Jeffrey Marshall, a certified elder-law attorney in Williamsport, Pa., you can hire a lawyer and go to court to "seek an accounting." More usual and costly is a guardianship suit, by which you seek to become your mother's legal guardian, revoking the POA. Alternatively, you could call adult protective services to investigate a suspected case of financial abuse...
...then boom - first in Gexto near Bilbao on Jan. 18, then in a hotel near Alicante on Jan. 30, then last week. "It looks as if ETA is impeding Batasuna's political moves," says Patxi Zabaleta, leader of Basque nationalist group Aralar and a former defense lawyer for ETA prisoners. But Batasuna refuses to criticize its armed brethren. The attack "responds to the perverse logic of this conflict and it shows that a solution is needed," says Pernando Barrena, a Batasuna spokesman. Alberto Surio, political commentator at San Sebastián's daily El Diario Vasco, says the attacks show...
...SECRET. The account, they advised the Pentagon, revealed interrogation methods and techniques that were classified. The Pentagon wrote back that if the Guantánamo officials could not cite solid legal grounds for censoring the material, the document would be cleared. The memo from the Pentagon noted that the authors' lawyer had previously sued the Defense Department successfully over a manuscript that contained classified information and might do so again. The section was cleared for publication with very few changes. But last month the nine pages at issue were leaked, apparently by someone within the military, since the Pentagon memo...