Saddam's lawyers boycott closing arguments
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The defense began closing arguments in the trial of Saddam Hussein on Monday, but most of the lawyers boycotted the court because of the slaying last month of an attorney for the former Iraqi leader.
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A court trying Saddam Hussein for genocide against ethnic Kurds in 1988 agreed on Monday to a prosecution request to stop listening to more witnesses, a move that could speed up proceedings in the three-month trial.
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Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest the shooting death of an attorney on the ousted Iraqi leader&#039;s defense team, their chief lawyer said &amp;#151; the third such killing in the 8-month-old trial.
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The court-appointed lawyer of a firebrand Serb nationalist appealed to his client Tuesday to end the boycott of his war crimes trial, where he stands accused of unleashing a murderous campaign of ethnic cleansing in parts of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
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A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam   Hussein from his genocide trial on Wednesday and defense   lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the   chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil.
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Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest the killing of an attorney on the defense team, Saddam&#039;s chief lawyer said. Khalil al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press, &quot;President Saddam and other members of his leadership went on a hunger strike today to protest the killing of Khamis al-Obeidi.&quot;
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair and fundamentally flawed.
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LONDON, England -- Two court-appointed lawyers for former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic have asked to be dismissed from his case.
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The Hague - The two lawyers imposed on former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic have asked to be removed from his war crimes trial, sources close to the case said on Wednesday.
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Lawyers defending Conrad Black and three former associates against criminal fraud charges wrapped up their case on Tuesday after the one-time media baron and three co-defendants turned down a last chance to take the stand in their own defense.
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Saddam Hussein is in good health, but unrepentant, according to a lawyer who spent more than four hours with the deposed Iraqi leader last week.
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We host a debate between Abdul Haq Al-Ani, a London-based attorney who is one of Saddam Hussein&#39;s lawyers and Michael Scharf, one of five international law experts who helped train Iraqi judges after major combat ended in the country.
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Saddam Hussein's cousin told Iraq's High Tribunal on Monday that it had no right to try him for war crimes because he had the same kind of immunity from prosecution that U.S. forces enjoy in Iraq.
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An investigating officer has recommended dismissing charges against a Marine lawyer accused of failing to probe the killings of 24 Iraqis in the town of Haditha, the defense attorney said Saturday.
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An Iraqi lawyer on Saddam Hussein's defense team has received several death threats in the last three weeks and has gone into hiding, the chief defense attorney for the deposed Iraqi leader said Monday.
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The defense began closing arguments in the trial of Saddam Hussein on Monday after the chief judge condemned the slaying of one of the former leader&#039;s top lawyers last month.
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Saddam Hussein objected on Tuesday to allowing a leading American forensic scientist to testify about his investigation into a mass grave of Kurds in the genocide trial of the former Iraqi leader.