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...Sousa. Timothy J. Kelleher—the other defendant in the case and the individual suspected of actually striking the victim—was also present yesterday in court, where he was scheduled to face a jury on charges of assault and battery with intent to intimidate. But his trial was postponed and is scheduled to begin today at 9:15 a.m., according to Middlesex D.A. spokeswoman Kathryn Norton. The victim of the alleged attack, Galo Garcia III ’05, says that as he walked on Bow Street to a Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA...
...could even get a word out, the new presiding judge told him to keep quiet. But Saddam was already on a tirade. He waved a folded yellow paper in his hand, saying it was a written request asking the court to allow him to skip the rest of the trial as long as acting head judge Mohammad al-Ubeidy was presiding...
...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...
...defense team is hoping that their boycott will stall the trial or return the ousted judge. But there is no intention to do either, says an Iraqi government official close to the court. "It can proceed legally, and it will...
...trial is unlikely to proceed, however, without Saddam inside the rust-colored metal bars of the dock. Even if the former dictator refuses to attend, the court can demand that Saddam be brought before the judge by force. Guards used force during the Dujail case in February to bring Saddam and three other defendants, disheveled and in their pyjamas, to hear testimony. Saddam then claimed he was on a hunger strike to protest his rough treatment by then chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman...