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Paris ((CNN)) --Islamist group, whose members were targeted in a series of raids by the French police, the Director of the contest Toulouse, Gunma Mohammed Merah by Philippe Missamou said on Saturday.

Mohammed Achamlane Forsane Alizza group was arrested Friday, the alleged links with radical Islam among the people, more than 19 Missamou said.

After the Raids came in the week that killed seven people in the attacks in Merah, was shot dead in the southwestern city of Toulouse after a long siege.

The French media suggested Merah had developed contacts with pro-al-Qaida group, which is the cluster of Toulouse descendants.

Forsane Alizza, was to travel to Afghanistan to fight against the French nationals by encouraging non-contractual jihad in January.

Missamou, told CNN he was last spoken Achamlane on Monday.

Achamlane told him at this time, the Group had been in contact with Merah and that it had nothing to do with killings in Toulouse, Merah Missamou said.

Achamlane said the group does not support the use of armed combat, the attorney said.

The members of the group, expected to meet Missamou which he has represented since January, on Monday or Tuesday.

After they entered into service before the judge and either impose further studies with the charges or released, he said.

Ministry of the Interior on 19 people were arrested in the alleged Missamou contest are Forsane Alizza, saying, many are not members.

Friday's arrests took place in Toulouse, Marseille, Nantes, Lyon, and the Ile de France region around Paris, the Interior Ministry said.

Ministry of Justice, the media, the Office said "the police had plans to 19 arrests and, therefore, the arrests were made in the context of the Group of 19 Forsane Alizza."

Interior Minister Claude Gueant said that several firearms, including automatic weapons, rifles, four, five, and three Kalashnikovs, was found to be suspected of housing, as well as a bulletproof vest in searches.

Missamou, said he had argued that the weapons were found.

He also said he did not know whether the members of the group, the time from Pakistan or Afghanistan.

Lawyer disputes the characterization, saying, the group, it will describe the injustice of the French State in the competition.

Its members claim that France does not recognize the country and passing through laws that will be applied to Muslims in France a multicultural, breeds and multi-religious nature, he said.

Police have investigated whether or not acted alone in planning his attack on Merah.

He has accused the three of the French pudotuksiin, the rabbi and three Jewish children, ages 4, 5 and 7 to the killings. The other was wounded in the shootings, two seriously.

He had told the police Merah has participated in al-Qaeda training camp at Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins.

But his uncle Jamal Azizi denied the statements of the French authorities that al-Qaeda sympathizer Merah was and that he traveled to Afghanistan, or Pakistan, train in the use of weapons.

Buried in the cemetery at the Toulouse again Thursday, Merah.

CNN's Anna Prichard contribute to this report.

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Karnevaali Triumph julkaistu purje jälkeen Deal iski, asianajaja sanoo - BusinessWeek

Carnival Corporationin (Ilmastonmuutosmaksun) (Ilmastonmuutosmaksun)-Carolinassa julkaisi purjehtia Texas satamasta Yhdysvaltain tuomari, joka m??r?si sit? takavarikoitiin maaliskuu 30 oikeudenk?yntiin yli kuoleman, Costa Concordia haaksirikosta. Italia k?yt?st?.

Yhdysvaltain tutkintatuomari tuomarin John Froeschner julkaisi MS Carnival Triumph eilen alkaen takavarikkoa tilauksen tilan risteily-linjakonferenssien sen koti portin, Galveston, sanoi John Eaves Jr., asianajaja uhrin perheelle.

Triumph, jonka sama yritys, joka omistaa Costa Concordia omistaa haettiin oikeudenk?yntiin (Ilmastonmuutosmaksun) on my?s arkistoidun maaliskuu 30 Galveston liittovaltion tuomioistuimessa Siglinde Stumpf, Saksan turisti, joka kuoli haaksirikosta perheen vakuudeksi.

"Liittyy Carnival Triumph asia on ratkaistu," sanoi Jennifer De La Cruz, tiedottaja Miami-pohjainen Carnival, maailman suurin risteily-aluksen liikenteenharjoittajan.

The Triumph oli mahdollisuus hallituksen matkustajien ja rahdin takavarikointi-tilaus on voimassa. 2,758-Matkustaja-aluksen tarjoaa vuoden l?pi palvelun Houston-alueelta portit Karibian ja Meksikossa. Tietoja 4: 30-p.m. poikennut viiden p?iv?n matkan Yucatan ja Cozumel paikallista aikaa.

Eaves sanoi puhelin-haastattelu aiemmissa eilen, ett? Triumph voisi vapautettu takavarikkoa tilauksesta Jos sopineet risteily-rivi, kirjata 10 miljoonaa dollaria suojauksen joukkovelkakirjojen Saksan matkailija oikeudenk?ynti. P??t?slauselman, jossa noin 30 minuuttia ennen aluksen l?ht?aika oli saavutettu, tiedot ovat luottamuksellisia, Eaves sanoi, s?hk?postitse l?hetetyt-lauseessa.

Jackson, Mississippi, perustuu Eaves sanoi, h?n on lis??ntynyt valvonta-ja turvallisuusnormeja yleisen Risteilyalukset teollisuuden lobbaus kansainv?listen kuluttajaliikkeen osa. H?n sanoi, 16 risteilyalusten ovat uponneita maailmanlaajuisesti viimeisten 20 vuoden aikana. V?hint??n 25 ihmist? kuoli, kun Costa Concordia juoksi aground pois Italia tammikuussa.

Eaves sanoi Stumpf n oikeudenk?ynti Galveston kohdentaa Triumph, jotka h?n sanoi, "riitt?m?t?n turvallisuus s??nt?jen mukaisesti Costa Concordia, t?sm?lleen sama.'' on j?tt?nyt

"Olemme eiv?t olleet saada Carnival n huomiota, niin t?m? on meid?n laukaus keula Ilmoita, ett? olemme vakavasti lain ja merenkulun standardien muuttaminen," Eaves sanoi. "Haluamme yhten?iset turvallisuusm??r?ykset, ja meill? ei lopeta kunnes saamme sit?."

Karnevaali sanoi 9. maaliskuuta se oli nettotappio 139 miljoonaa dollaria ensimm?isell? nelj?nneksell?, nettotulot 152 miljoonaa dollaria verrattuna aikaisemman vuoden aikana.

Fallout from Costa Concordia, joka suoritettiin karilla k?yt?st? Italian Giglion saari, eli laajentaa kautta 2012, yrityksen sanoi sen ansioiden julkaisun mukana ilmoitus.

Lis?ksi kun toisen Costa Cruises aluksen, Allegra, oli hinattavilla Seychellien saarilla Intian valtameren rannalla j?lkeen pyydyst?miseen tulen Feb. 27 ja 22 Vieraita Carnival Splendor karnevaali n troubles ry?stetty maalla Meksikossa.

Asia on Kai Stumpf v. Carnival Plc, 3: 12-cv-0099, Yhdysvaltain District Court, Texas Southern District (Galveston).

Yhteytt? juttu reportteri: Laurel Brubaker Calkins Houstonin osoitteessa laurel@calkins.us.com.

Yhteytt? vastuussa juttu editorin: Michael Hytha osoitteessa mhytha@bloomberg.net

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Yhdysvaltain Soldier asianajaja sanoo käyttö estetty näyttö - New York Times

"Odotettu paljon enemm?n yhteisty?t?," Sergeant Bales lyijyn asianajaja, John Henry Browne, sanoi perjantaina Seattlessa uutisia konferenssin aikana.

Valitukset odotetaan olevan, vain monta kiist?minen todisteita asiantuntijat ennustavat ensimm?isen on eritt?in monimutkainen asia, puolustus-ja syytetoimia, sota-vy?hykkeell? rikoksen n?ytt?m?lle sijainti ja todistajien molemmille puolille asianajajien mahdollista vihamielisyys.

Mr. Browne sanoi, ett? kun h?nen avustajaryhm?ns? oli estynyt haastatteleminen terrori-iskut sairaalan j?lkeenj??neens?, syytt?jien haastateltu n?iden todistajien seuraavana. Sitten todistajia julkaistiin, j?tt?en yhteystietoja. "Ne voitaisiin vain kadota huomioon maaseudun," Mr. Browne sanoi.

H?n sanoi my?s, ett? joukkue oli ei tutustua terveystiedot haavoittunut siviilej? tai valvonta-videon, joka n?ytt?? vahvistaneen Sergeant Bales palaa h?nen torjumiseksi mutta tapot j?lkeen.

"Syytetoimet on toimitettava puolustaminen todisteita s??nt?jen mukaisesti courts-martial ja n?ytt?, sotilaallisten s??nt?jen" sanoi kenraalimajuri Chris Ophardt, armeijan tiedottaja on yhteinen Base Lewis-McChord, Tacoma, Wash., jossa Sergeant Bales oli asevoimille etel?puolella. "N?iden ohjeiden mukainen syytetoimet on ja puolustaminen yhteydess?."

Eugene R. Fidell, joka opettaa sotilaallisen oikeuden Yalen lain koulussa, sanoi, ei ollut hallituksen olisi odotettavissa avulla voit jakaa tiedostoja avoinna tutkimuksessa t?m? alkupuolella tapauksessa syyt?. H?n lis?t??n, ett? syytt?j?t olisi, jotta niiden t?rkeimpien todistajien puolustus, on k?ytett?viss?, jos kyseisen todistuksen tietueessa haluamansa.

Sergeant paaleissa, joka on k?ynniss? oleviin Fort Leavenworth, Kan., tutkitaan mielenterveyden asiantuntijoiden m??ritt??kseen, onko h?n on henkisesti soveltuvat kokeiluversion, prosessi, joka voi kulua kuukausia. Mr. Browne, joka sanoo, ett? Sergeant Bales muista monia tapahtumia alkaen tapot y?, pyrkii my?s selvitt??, kersantti, joka oli concussive p??n vahingon tai traumaper?isen stressih?iri?.

Sotilaallisen virkamiesten sanoa Sergeant paaleissa, 38, k?veli ulos, h?nen torjumiseksi outpost Kandaharin maakunta l?hell? kylien aikaisessa vaiheessa aamulla maaliskuun 11 ja kuolettavasti laukaus m??r? ihmisi?, joille v?hint??n yhdeks?n lapset. H?n on peritty 17 laskee premeditated murha, p??oman rikollisuuden kanssa.

Armeijan on viel? ehdottamaan k?ytt?voiman takaamaan, vaikka virkamiesten sanonut Sergeant Bales voi on kulutukseen y? ja kanssa useita k?ytt??nottoja; korostaa kamppailee h?n oli h?nen nelj?s k?ytt??noton 10 vuotta.

Mr. Browne on sanonut Sergeant Bales onnellisina naimisissa ja ettei ollut n?ytt??, h?n juonut alkoholi ampumista samanarvoisten y?. H?n on my?s sanoi, ett? Sergeant Bales tiesi sotilas, joka haavoittui pahasti p?iv?? ennen tapot, oli liev? Aivovamma ja mahdollisesti my?s P.T.S.D. — Vaikka kersantti vaimo on sanonut, h?n koskaan huomannut mit??n oireita.

Mr. Browne sanoi my?hemmin, ett? Sergeant Bales oli todenn?k?isesti yritt?nyt piilottaa h?nt? h?nen ongelmia.

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By waiting on the not guilty Sesler

The man accused of killing his family, Curtin, lawyer, said on Friday he expects his client to dispose of the arraignment, and enter a not guilty plea.

Frank Blazek, Huntsville, Alabama, from the judgment of the Court of Justice shall be appointed by the defense lawyer, said he recently used his Trey Sesler, which is running the County jail, with Waller.

"He is very young, and, you know, of course, this is a very sorrowful tragedy and he recognizes the tragedy," said Blazek.

Sesler, 22, is charged with the capital murder of his parents Lawton Ray Sesler Jr., 58, and Rhonda Wyse Sesler, 57, the deaths and the first murder of Mark's older brother Sesler, 26. The three were found shot to death in the March 20 family ranch style home at 1600 block Farr Waller.

Funeral service for all three was on Wednesday, Canon Funeral Home in Waller. Trey Sesler's grandfather, the second service is Saturday at the funeral home. Lawton Ray Sesler SR., 88, chronic illness, succumbed to 23. March, only days after the shootings.

Blazek said, he does not have built-in information about its customers to go to the police, with the discussion, which was designed to carry out mass public Shooting Sesler.

"I would like to say he is in possession of a highly complex legal person shall be allowed to know better and, at this stage, such as a criminal case, he shall be entitled, the presumption of innocence," Blazek said.

He said he expected the grand jury court State next week.

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Martin family lawyer known for civil rights cases - Boston.com

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SANFORD, Fla.—When Benjamin Crump got his first call from Trayvon Martin's father last month, the attorney counseled patience.

It had only been two days since a neighborhood watch volunteer had fatally shot the 17-year-old, and surely an arrest was imminent, thought Crump, who has pursued several civil rights cases against law enforcement agencies.

Two more days passed. Still nothing.

"I believed in my heart of hearts they were going to arrest him," Crump said Thursday in an interview. "I said, `Oh, they are going to arrest him. You don't need me on this.'"

More than a month later, there still has been no arrest.

But thanks largely to Crump's efforts, the case has stirred marches and rallies around the nation, merited comment from President Barack Obama, led to the resignation of the Sanford police chief and brought scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice into this Orlando suburb of 55,000 residents.

"When you have the president commenting on the matter and you have celebrities and politicians wearing their hoodies as a symbol of the cause that you're representing, and it has taken over the world's attention, this is overwhelming in a sense," said Crump, who was in Washington for several days of meeting with members of Congress and appearing on national news shows. "We've been pushing relentlessly day and night."

Crump's strategy for making the case international news began with a series of heart-wrenching news conferences in which Martin's parents spoke about their loss. Florida media outlets began to notice. Then, he enlisted U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown to help convince authorities to release 911 tapes, recordings that brought the case to the attention of national media. He's further ratcheted pressure on authorities by organizing a series of rallies and working with national civil rights figures such as Al Sharpton.

The push began not long after Martin's death on the night of Feb. 26. Martin, wearing a hoodie, was walking home from a Sanford, Fla. convenience store when he was spotted by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who called a police dispatcher to report Martin as suspicious. There was a confrontation, and Martin was shot. Zimmerman has told detectives he shot Martin in self-defense.

Martin's death raises questions about the role of vigilantism, racial profiling and Florida's self-defense laws. Under those laws, a person isn't obligated to retreat in a threatening situation. Zimmerman's father has said his son wasn't profiling Martin and that he isn't racist. Zimmerman's mother is Hispanic and his father is white.

Crump was first contacted by a cousin of Trayvon Martin's father. The cousin, a Miami attorney, was familiar with Crump's civil rights work in Florida. Before Martin's death, Crump was best known for representing the parents of a teenage boy who died after an encounter with guards at a Florida boot camp in 2006. The videotaped beating of Martin Lee Anderson attracted national attention and led to the closure of the state's boot camps for juvenile offenders.

Crump, 42, and his wife, Genae Angelique Crump, are raising two teenage boys who are the biological sons of Crump's cousin. The oldest is Martin's age.

"Trayvon hits home on many levels," Crump said.

Crump and his law partner, Daryl Parks, are Tallahassee-based personal injury attorneys who primarily handle wrongful death and negligence cases. But their everyday work often involves civil rights issues.

"Daryl and Ben look at things in a broader perspective," said James Messer, a Tallahassee attorney who serves on the board of the Tallahassee Bar Association with Crump. "While there may be a wrongful death issue, it involves, in their eyes, more than anything a civil rights cause ... (Crump) has a passion for issues that have something to do with civil rights violations."

Crump's advocacy on behalf of Martin's family has gotten the attention of established civil rights leaders. Both Sharpton and Jesse Jackson flew down to Sanford to participate in rallies and a meeting before the Sanford city commission.

"He has integrity, smarts and an uncanny ability," Jackson said about Crump. "He is not flashy. He is just kind of a basic, old, solid-thinking, country lawyer."

Crump gets the "country" part from growing up in Lumberton, N.C., a tiny town not far from Fort Bragg. His mother held down two jobs as a factory worker and hotel housekeeper. His biological father was a soldier at Fort Bragg. He was raised by his mother and her high school sweetheart who later became her husband. Crump regards him as his father. The oldest of nine siblings and step-siblings, Crump grew up in an extended family of cousins, uncles and aunts headed by his beloved great-grandmother, Mittie.

"She had a switch in her hand when we came home from school. She would ask what we learned in school that day, and she used that switch to enforce the importance of that question," Crump said of his great-grandmother.

Crump would spend all day every Sunday in Pentecostal church, often missing the chance to watch his Dallas Cowboys play on television. The influence of the church is visible in his public speeches when he often sounds more like a preacher than a lawyer. His interest in civil rights stems from attending segregated schools until he was in fifth grade.

"It was a situation to me, that I said, `Why do people on that side of the tracks have it so much better than people on our side of the tracks?'" he said.

When Crump was in high school, his mother sent him to Fort Lauderdale to live with the man he regarded as his father so he could have a male influence and be exposed to the culture that the bigger city offered.

He attended college and law school and Florida State University, where he met Parks, his future law partner. In his personal statement for law school, he said his hero was Thurgood Marshall, the U.S. Supreme Court's first black justice. After graduating, Parks and Crump formed their own law firm, Tallahassee-based, Parks and Crump.

Crump dodges the question of how, and if, he is being compensated by Trayvon Martin's parents.

"You do it because it's the right thing to do," he said. "As long as you make your goal to do right and do good, all of the money and financial material stuff will come."

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The two companies the injury lawyers recognized as Top 40 lawyers under 40 in the trial version of Virginia-PR Web (press release)

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National trial lawyers has selected Virginia injury Bützow – Emily Mapp Brannon and Kevin Duffan, associates with Shapiro, Lewis and Appleton law firm, to be included in the "Virginia 40 ' for the trial lawyers in 40 of the world.

National trial lawyers Top 40 in the u.s. top 40 young people in the trial version of Bützow consists of a professional organization. Membership of the Top 40 in the 40-40-year-olds only, and upon the invitation of lawyers, which have opted for a process, which includes peer candidates and third-party research is limited. These lawyers have excelled in the room of the Court of Justice selected, superior competence and must be displayed in the leadership of the young people in the trial lawyers.

This means, in practice, Emily and Kevin are some of the 40-year-olds, the Virginia personal injury lawyers.

Our Virginia personal injury law firm is proud that Emily and Kevin was elected to this prestigious honor. They represent our company's commitment to excellence and the willingness on the part of the opinion of Advocate General of our client's rights to the original statement, though, when it is necessary.

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Keith Olbermann's lawyer vows 'bad result' for Al Gore's Current - Los Angeles Times (blog)

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Keith Olbermann's lawyer is coming out swinging against Al Gore and Current TV.

The tiny network, co-founded by the former vice president and Nobel laureate, announced Friday that it had fired the liberal host because he didn't share its "values" of respect and collegiality.

In response, Patty Glaser, a veteran litigator who represents Olbermann, blasted Current in a phone call with Show Tracker.

"Keith Olbermann's termination is baseless," she said. "We will sue them for their improper conduct. They made a bad decision; they can expect a bad result."

The war of words comes after Current informed Olbermann on Thursday morning that his services were no longer needed. A source familiar with the situation said bosses grew frustrated after Olbermann took repeated unexcused absences from his talk show "Countdown," including the night before the March 6 Super Tuesday primaries, when interest in his brand of political talk was at a premium.

The two sides tried to hammer out a settlement Thursday and into Friday, but with Olbermann insisting on tens of millions of dollars to pay out his contract, they remained far apart, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

Olbermann accused Gore and Current co-founder Joel Hyatt of a cynical money-saving move. "For more than a year I have been imploring Al Gore and Joel Hyatt to resolve our issues internally, while I've been not publicizing my complaints, and keeping the show alive for the sake of its loyal viewers and even more loyal staff," Olbermann tweeted. "Nevertheless, Mr. Gore and Mr. Hyatt, instead of abiding by their promises and obligations and investing in a quality news program, finally thought it was more economical to try to get out of my contract."

Olbermann's ouster comes just two months after Current bosses assured journalists that previous conflicts with Olbermann had been settled.

"We're fine," Gore told Show Tracker in January when asked about the Olbermann situation.

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Lawyer says Us blocks investigation of Afghan massacre

SEATTLE (Reuters)-the U.s. military in Afghanistan, civilians to defend the murdering 17-the accused lawyer claims the US authorities to prevent his ability.

John Henry Browne, staff sergeant Robert bales, a lawyer, said the US forces in Afghanistan, is prevented from attending, his team to interview any person crossing the injured civilians in a hospital, Kandahar and other potential witnesses in a scatter chart, find it difficult to keep track of them.

"My gut is, they do not have a lot of cases," Browne said at a press conference, his downtown Seattle Office Friday.

Bales was formally charged with the murder last week of eight adults and nine children in the pre-dawn Shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan on March 11 which undermines further the relations of the United States in the Afghan war strained already this decade.

He may prove to be the death penalty if convicted.

No date has been set for the proceedings, but the US military prosecutors are putting together their case, even though Browne is to prepare his defence.

Browne said he has a team of researchers in Afghanistan now, but they are a little cooperation in the military prosecutors received, which filed the charges.

"We are facing almost the complete information blackout by the Government that a devastating effect on our ability to investigate the charges against our priorities," he said in the statement released in the past.

A reliable account of the events of the night of The massacre is not yet born. The last report indicated the Afghan villagers doubt Bales acted alone. Other reports Suggest Bales left his base twice during the night.

"I do not think this is the case, but we can say that," Browne said Friday.

Browne said his investigators had spoken to U.s. soldiers in Afghanistan, but it was could not be any witnesses.

"When we tried to interview shall be treated in the Kandahar hospital, we were blocked and told to coordinate the prosecution, a group of injured civilians," Browne said in the statement.

"Next to the charge, the group interviewed civilians injured. We found shortly after the injured civilians to the charge, was released from the hospital, interviews with civilians and had them contact information. " This means, if any, of witnesses in the scatter chart, and can prove to be unreachable, Browne said.

Browne said it was too early to say whether or not there is a case to invoke the post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD or other psychological illness or problems with the Bale has been caused by the defence.

The next event is the Bales, which is running in the military detention centre is in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to submit to a mental health assessment of army doctors independent of the prosecution and the defence, in order to determine if he is fit to stand trial, is called "the sanity of the Board" in the armed forces. That could take several months, Browne said.

The military judicial system requires that from occurring after the end of the preliminary hearing, which is known as the "article" at the hearing, whether or not strong enough in the case of the Court of Justice, which was able to do so.

(Reports Of The Bill Rigby; Editing by Todd Eastham and Paul Simao)

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Asianajaja sanoo Yhdysvaltain lohkot tutkimus Afganistanin joukkomurha - Reuters

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1 2. Attorney John Henry Browne (R), siviili oikeudellista avustajaa, yhteinen Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) sotilas henkil?st?n kersantti Robert paaleissa, sitten k?ytt??n Yhdysvaltain armeijan sotilas syytetty murdering 17 Afganistanin siviilien aiemmin t?ss? kuussa pohjaisia, puhuu lehdist?tilaisuudessa h?nen Seattle, Washington Officen 30. maaliskuuta 2012.

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SEATTLE (Reuters) - puolustaa murdering 17 Afganistanin siviilien Yhdysvaltain sotilas-syytetty asianajaja v?itt??, Yhdysvaltain viranomaiset est?v?t h?nen kykyns? asiaa.

John Henry Browne, Ylikersantti Robert paaleissa, asianajaja sanoi Yhdysvaltain joukot Afganistanissa on estynyt h?nen ryhm?ns? haastatteleminen loukkaantuneiden siviilej? sairaalassa, Kandahar ja sallitaan muiden mahdollisten todistajien pistekaavio, vaikea seurata niit?.

"Kun syytt?jien ?l? yhteisty?ss?, on koska ne ovat huolissaan niiden tapauksessa vahvuus" sanoi Browne lehdist?tilaisuudessa, h?nen downtown Seattle Officen perjantai.

Paaleissa oli muodollisesti pináparatangan viime viikolla kahdeksan aikuisten murhat ja yhdeks?n lasten pre-dawn Ammunta rampage etel?isen Afganistanissa 11.3.2007, joka heikent?? edelleen Yhdysvaltain Afghan suhteiden vuosikymmenen sodan jo strained.

H?n voi osoittautua kuolemanrangaistusta, jos tuomittu.

Ei p?iv?m??r? on m??ritetty oikeudenk?ynnin, mutta Yhdysvaltain armeijan syytt?jien yhteystietoluetteloonsa yhdess? niiden tapauksessa vaikka Browne valmistelee h?nen puolustus.

Browne sanoi h?n on ryhm?n tutkijat Afganistanissa nyt, mutta ne ovat saaneen v?h?n yhteisty?n sotilaallisen syytt?jien, joka Arkistoi maksut.

"Meill? on edess?mme l?hes t?ydelliset tiedot-blackout hallitukselta, jotka tuhoisa vaikutus kykymme tutkia vastaan asiakkaamme ensisijaiset kulut," h?n sanoi julkaissut aiemmin perjantaina lauseeseen.

The massacre y? tapahtumien luotettavan huomioon on ei viel? syntynyt. Viime raporttiin ilmoitettu Afganistanin kyl?l?iset ep?selviss? Bales toiminut yksin. Muut raportit Ehdota Bales vasemmalle h?nen base kahdesti y?aikaan.

"En usko n?in on, mutta emme tied? varmasti t?ss? vaiheessa" Browne sanoi perjantaina.

Browne sanoi h?nen tutkijat oli puhunut Yhdysvaltain sotilasta Afganistanissa, mutta se oli ei onnistunut tahansa todistajien yhteytt?.

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"Kun olemme yritt?neet haastattelu kohdellaan Kandahar sairaalassa meill? oli estetty ja kertoi koordinoimaan syytteen ryhm?n loukkaantuneiden siviilej?," Browne sanoi aiemmissa-lauseessa.

"Seuraavana syytteen ryhm?n haastateltu siviilej? loukkaantui. L?ysimme pian sen j?lkeen, kun vahingon k?rsineen siviilej? syytteen haastattelut siviilej?, oli julkaissut from sairaalaan ja oli heille yhteystietoja." T?m? tarkoittaa mahdollisten todistajien pistekaavio, ja voi osoittautua ei tavoitettavissa, Browne sanoi.

Syytt?jien oli ole jaettu tutkintatoimien havainnoistaan h?nen ryhm?ns? kanssa ja jaa valvonta kamera, joka blimp edell? base, jotka armeijan sanoo n?ytt?? palaa leiri j?lkeen v?itetyn Ammunta Bales otettujen kuvien, h?n sanoi.

Seuraavaksi tapauksessa on Bales – jotka j?rjestet??n sotilaallisen pys?ytt?misen Centeriss? osoitteessa Fort Leavenworth, Kansas - suostumaan mielenterveyden arvioinut armeijan l??k?reiden riippumaton syytetoimiin ja puolustus, m??ritt??kseen, jos h?n ei mahdu asettua kokeiluversio, kutsutaan "sanity lautakunnan" armeijassa.

Joka voi kest?? useita kuukausia, Browne sanoi.

Ett? ilmenemisen j?lkeen sotilaallisen oikeusj?rjestelm?n edellytt?? alustavaan kuulusteluun, joka tunnetaan nimell? "32 artiklan"-istunnossa, onko tarpeeksi vahva asiassa tuomioistuimen, joka kykeni tekem??n.

Browne sanoi, se oli liian aikaista sanoa, onko traumaper?isen stressih?iri? ominaisuus h?nen tunkeutumisyrityksilt? maksut. "En tied? onko se lainkaan," sanoi Browne.

"Meill? on selvitt?? ensimm?inen asia on, onko hallitus on tapauksessa. Kunnes olet vakuuttunut, hallitus on tapauksessa, ei aiomme aloittaa, mit? meid?n suojaus k?ynniss? olevan speculating."

(Kertomukset Bill Rigby; Muokkaaminen Todd Eastham ja Paul Simao)

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Lawyer: suspect in Afghanistan was the depression after the Iraq

OLYMPIA, Wash (AP) — the U.s. military. confusion caused by the killing of 17 civilians in Afghanistan marks his second tour in Iraq during the event, which will be "a horrible depression", his lawyer said Wednesday.

Lawyer, John Henry Browne said he could not discuss details of the case, in the absence of further classified. But he expects to be the focal point of the Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales against in the case of a problem.

"It was caused by him, a huge depression, and," Browne said.

The lawyer said that in the past, experienced a serious foot Bales, and his deployments, injury and trauma to the head, the other significant risks. In addition, exchanges of military foot had been blown in Afghanistan the day before the massacre, he said.

Bales was charged with premeditated murder and 17 counts of other offences. He is running in the Us military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

The defense team is now in the collection of evidence and other Us soldiers in Afghanistan, who knew Bales interview.

"All you've spoken to compulsory military service does not have any positive things to say about him, but amazingly," said Browne, who is not a team in Afghanistan.

To address these Browne does not believe the group, visit the villages, where the killings took place. The researchers are likely to stay in Afghanistan for a few more weeks.

Browne was questioned by the United States Government against bales, noting at the scene of the crime has not been preserved.

"It is going to be difficult to prove the prosecution," Browne said. ' Is not a ' CSI ' information. Is not in the DNA, which I know. "There is a ballistics, that I know."

Bales has indicated that he had prescription drugs, he or she may have, before the shooting is something the attorney took a larger memory recollection — problems with the indicator.

The lawyer also said, he is the night of the shootings. In a separate interview with The Washington Post Browne said Wednesday at the Bales will be remembered, the smell, the gunfire and human bodies, but not much more.

Browne added his client reported suffering from nightmares, pojastaan war scenes and headache after his multiple combat tours. Bales told of his legal team, that he has woken the night sweats with the long and often concerned with inset, memories of the scene in Iraq that he and his infantry company saw several years ago, Browne said.

The lawyer stressed the Bales does not recognise seemed surprised when his gun was taken away, the newspaper reported.

US military officials said, were drinking in the southern Afghan base Bales on March 11 before the creeping bent away from the village in the middle of the night, Shooting his victims, and then many of them on fire. The nine were children.

Bales has been in the past, alcohol and violence.

In 2002, he was arrested for drunken assault Tacoma Casino security guard. The charge was dismissed after the Bales of anger management training for 20 hours.

In 2008, the pair accused the woman's hand and grabbing his crotch thrusting towards the kicking and punching an intoxicated woman's boyfriend, the Bales before the police report. Prosecutors declined to pursue the case.

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Associated Press writer Mike Baker can be reached at: http://twitter.com/MikeBakerAP

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Supreme Court rejects damage claim in HIV privacy case

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The Supreme Court limits "actual damages" under the Privacy ActA California man sued when the government publicly revealed his HIV statusThe 5-3 ruling pitted the court's conservative majority against the liberal minorityJustice Elena Kagan, the former solicitor general, did not participate

Washington (CNN) -- A divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against a California pilot who sued after the federal government publicly revealed his HIV status.

In a 5-3 ruling, the high court decided Stanmore Cooper's claims of mental and emotional distress are not covered under the Privacy Act.

"The Privacy Act does not unequivocally authorize damages for mental or emotional distress and therefore does not waive the government's sovereign immunity for such harms," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the conservative majority.

Three liberal justices dissented, while a fourth, former Solicitor General Elena Kagan, did not participate.

In a statement Wednesday, Cooper said it was "discouraging that a majority of the court sided with the government."

Cooper became a licensed recreational pilot in 1964, but two decades later, the San Francisco man was diagnosed with HIV. As his condition worsened, he let his private pilot's certificate and his airman medical certificate lapse.

In 1996, Cooper applied for long-term disability with the Social Security Administration.

"I was in bad shape, I didn't have long to live," he said last year. But his health improved thanks to a cocktail of anti-retroviral therapy. He went back to work and wanted to fly again.

"I found out they were issuing medicals (exemptions) and I reapplied" to the Federal Aviation Administration "without revealing my HIV status," he said. "Big mistake."

He received his new pilot's certificate but, unknown to him, a joint local-federal initiative called Operation Safe Pilot was launched in 2002. Using a spreadsheet, the agencies shared and compared the names and personal data of about 45,000 pilots in Northern California, looking for potentially medically unfit individuals who were also receiving federal benefits.

Cooper was among four dozen or so pilots tagged as a "person of interest." When confronted by government agents, he admitted to a misdemeanor charge of filing a false report.

He was sentenced to probation and fined, and his pilot's certificate was revoked. The retired business executive's name was listed in a federal press release and later, through his prosecution, Cooper's medical history suddenly was a matter of public record.

"I had been able to control those (with) whom I shared my information about my HIV status, limited to some co-workers, family, and close friends," he said "And suddenly that was out of my control."

Cooper, who was eventually allowed to fly again, sued.

"I chose not to reveal my HIV infection and that was a very bad thing," he said. "I took responsibility for it and I paid the price. I was punished. And I think now it's the government's turn to own up to breaking the law and take responsibility for what they did."

A federal judge found both the FAA and the Social Security Administration violated the Privacy Act with the information-sharing investigation, but said under the law, only "actual damages" could be collected by plaintiffs seeking redress.

Since Cooper made no claims for economic harm, such as lost wages or medical expenses, he was out of luck. The judge found "emotional injury" alone did not qualify and dismissed the lawsuit.

A federal appeals court reversed that decision, ruling for Cooper. The FAA then asked the high court to intervene.

During an hour of oral arguments last year, the justices stayed away from the specific claims of emotional harm made by Cooper, focusing instead on what the law says about qualifying for damages.

"The argument you have made -- and I certainly understand it, that this is the Privacy Act and so it's precisely these types of damages that you would be concerned about -- really cuts both ways," Chief Justice John Roberts said to Cooper's lawyer.

"What you are saying is this (law) covers a really big chunk of damages, because this is what the whole act was about," Roberts said. "And it seems to me that argument suggests that there is some weight to the government's point: That if you are going to get that, you really do need clearer" language in the law that would immunize the government to some extent, from a flood of hard-to-disprove lawsuits.

The ambiguity has divided lower courts for years, and privacy experts said the ease with which the government can collect and share information in the digital age makes the issue of personal privacy liability ripe for review.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeatedly hammered away at the government lawyer arguing for the FAA. She said the federal damages provision in question is similar to state tort claims that include both emotional and financial harm.

"The person who is subject to this, to this embarrassment, this humiliation, doesn't have out-of-pocket costs, but is terribly distressed, nervous, anxious, and all the rest," Ginsburg said. "The act that the Congress is reaching, the impact is of that nature. I mean, pecuniary (monetary) damages ordinarily attend conduct that embarrasses, humiliates you, causes mental distress."

Eric Feigin of the Justice Department said the Privacy Act's language may be interpreted as allowing damages for such things as "humiliation, embarrassment and mental anguish," but said because the phrase "actual" damages remains vague, the government should get the benefit of the doubt, tipping the case in its favor.

"Simply because a plaintiff may have suffered an adverse effect" from the privacy violation, argued Feigin, "doesn't mean that the plaintiff suffered actual damages."

Raymond Cardozo, Cooper's lawyer, pointed out during the hearing that his client's information was made public and his name and HIV status are still posted on a federal government database. He also made a larger argument, that his client's dilemma is one that may affect all Americans.

"Congress passed this act to restore the citizens' faith in their government, and it made a solemn promise to the American citizens that in cases of intentional and willful violation, the United States shall be liable for actual damages," Cardozo said. "Today, the government is proposing that "actual damages" be read in a way that renders this act virtually irrelevant. That makes a mockery of that solemn promise."

Cooper attended the public session at the court and expressed optimism afterward he would prevail.

"They've betrayed my trust and I can't get that back," Cooper said at the time. "There was nothing to lose here. I had to do it. It was the right thing to do."

The case is Cooper v. FAA (10-1024).

CNN's Tom Cohen and Kate Bolduan contribute to this report.

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Rodman's lawyer: he is not a Deadbeat

Dennis Rodman's lawyer said Wednesday that a retired NBA player does not have a "deadbeat dad," following the court papers filed Tuesday alleged debt of more than $ 800,000 Rodman child support.

"In such a way that it makes it sound like he is painted in terrible shape," Rodman's lawyer, Linnea Willis, told ABCNews.com. "This makes him sound like he is a deadbeat, who is dead. This is Dennis Rodman has always paid child support to the best of its ability, and so on. "

On Tuesday, Rodman's ex-wife, Michelle Rodman, papers filed in a Los Angeles court, request the lawyer owes more than $ 800,000 Rodman back child support and the consequences for the couple's 9-10 children under three years of age on 1 March. He was ordered to pay his ex-wife $ 50000 per month child support. Reply to Willis filed motion of the month $ 50000 per order.

He said that the warrant has been issued for the year 2010 without Dennis ' real income, but rather was based on his ex-wife by the exaggerated number of inputs to the Bützow. " He also said that Rodman has not been duly notified of the legal documents.

Rodman's Manager, Darren Prince said Rodman is the payment of "at least 4 000 or 5 000 $," his ex-wife on a monthly basis. Willis said the Court "there is no evidence that all of the contributions that were made."

"The only thing that was a question of the month, was certain that his attorney, he paid for something, but it was not enough," Willis said.

Finally, for the hearing is set may 29 Rodman. When the attorney ex-wife said Rodman faces his insolvency or the child and spouse support time in jail, Willis said the judge, "it clearly shown he does not intend to give him jail time."

Michelle Rodman's lawyer, Jack Kayajanian did not respond to the requests for comment about the ABCNews.com: n.

Willis clarified Rodman: n option. Tuesday, the court documents described in the former Chicago Bulls star rebound as "very sick."

"In such a way that it makes the sound of the painted, such as he is, he is not a terrible shape," he said. "He plays, he plays, he makes appearances in China."

On Tuesday, Prince, Rodman's Manager, told ABCNews.com Rodman sidelined her well-documented drinking problem. " Willis claimed that his setbacks, Rodman still a good terms with his ex-wife and children.

"Every time he sees the children and each time they have to talk about," he said. "He loves her still. The end is not contentious. "

Dennis Rodman and Michelle Rodman married in 2003 after dating for four years. Michelle Rodman filed for divorce in 2004, but their marriage is not officially broke up until earlier this year to try to reconciliation.

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The lawyer behind Lindsay Lohan - Los Angeles Times

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When Lindsay Lohan showed up for court on Thursday, the crowd was not as large as it has been for the actress — anticipating perhaps a resolution, rather than the sort of dramatic turn that's made her five-year legal saga as compelling as any TV reality show.

The 25-year-old Lohan has been in and out of jail and rehab so many times, her story line seemed to arc toward failure.

She blew off therapy and community service, ticked off counselors and judges. You never knew what to expect from her in the courtroom — a tearful plea, a pout, a fingernail painted with a vulgar taunt.

But one thing never seemed to change: the steady presence of lawyer Shawn Holley, who is as movie-star pretty as her client but has the gravitas to smooth Lohan's rough edges.

I've been pulling for Lohan from the beginning. She's a talented actress whose on-screen portrayals are an angsty mix of innocence and defiance. Her movies "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" are classic favorites of my daughters.

But talk about bad role-modeling. As a fan, I found Lohan's missteps disappointing. As a mother, I found her jaunts exhausting. She became a symbol of the reckless self-absorption that's become routine for some young women — and I don't just mean Hollywood starlets.

As I watched her legal troubles mount — two DUIs and a jewelry theft — I took an odd sort of comfort from Holley's presence. They seemed to me more than client and lawyer.

When Lohan was sentenced to jail in 2010, she sobbed in the courtroom on Holley's shoulder. When Lohan was handcuffed in 2011, Holley looked down as her client was led out of court, as if the lawyer could not bear to watch.

On Thursday, Holley scribbled notes on her legal pad as the judge complimented Lohan's progress. She allowed herself the slightest smile when the judge pronounced Lohan's probation "terminated."

We witnessed the hug between Lohan and Holley. We didn't get to hear Lohan's whispered "I love you."

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A few hours after Lohan was freed, I headed off to meet her lawyer. In my 30-minute drive, I heard the story of Lohan's court hearing three times on the radio. She was wearing a "tight-fitting blue pantsuit," one announcer intoned.

She wasn't. It was more like teal, and it was tailored and tasteful — conservative, if you're 25.

It seems we can't resist a dig, even on her most triumphant morning. That reflects our investment in her bad-girl persona. And that troubles Holley.

"Lindsay's incredibly strong, but she's also very fragile," Holley said. "I can't imagine what it must be like to be her and feel how much people are kind of waiting for your downfall. That's got to be difficult, hurtful. And she doesn't deserve it."

That's the celebrity lawyer speaking — but it's also the mother of a 9-year-old daughter, an attorney who got her start as a public defender, a woman who still remembers her own youthful misadventures.

"Let's just say I had fun," said Holley, who went to UCLA from Fairfax High, spent a year teaching English at Washington Prep, then enrolled at Southwestern Law School because she didn't know what to do with her life.

She'd spent lots of time around lawyers. Her mother — who was single and 19 when Holley was born — was a legal secretary who earned her MBA in night school and spent years managing law firms.

Holley got her legal start interviewing car thieves and crack addicts. "You walk into this [courtroom] holding tank, and it's hot and it stinks and it's nasty," she said. And no one understands their legal rights. Most were ready to plead guilty, she said, even if they had a legitimate defense.

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Zuccotti Park, lawyer says demonstrators broke the law

Robert Stolarik Zuccotti Park New York TimesPolice officials, 15 Nov, 2011 if they are removed from the tents and Wall Street Klimaflüchtlinge were arrested.

When the police came to the Park, hundreds of Zuccotti, November 15, they dismantled tents and other structures that had been erected will take Wall Street Klimaflüchtlinge park-hotel's owner, Brookfield Properties, set up in September, subject to the provisions of the defiance.

The police also arrested dozens of Klimaflüchtlinge, who refused to leave the responsibility for the crimes, which include trespassing and disorderly conduct, approvers as well as to set up metal barricades around the park's rim.

On Friday, defense lawyers argued that the Criminal Court of Manhattan that the charges of two of his , must be rejected.

Although it may be appropriate to lay down rules concerning the issue of the Park, a lawyer, said the company could not provide for the people in the park, Brookfield, because it is open to the public 24 hours a day, with the agreement of the city.

"Brookfield was missing the authority to exclude people," by Jethro Eisenstein, m., with an emphasis on support of the motion to dismiss claimed that it was "unseemly and improper results in a State of" clear the allow Brookfield Klimaflüchtlinge park.

But assistant district attorney told judge Matthew Sciarrino, a. Jr., the company had the rights to cancel the Klimaflüchtlinge Park, but delete the police and sanitation of employees ' rights in the prohibited materials.

"They must be able to enforce the regulations," the Prosecutor, Ryan Hayward, said. "They deemed necessary in the park to close."

The judge asked both sides of Sciarrino to clarify certain points in the dossier. He requested Mr. Eisenstein, if he thought allowed users to use for any purpose, Zuccotti Park rules. Later, he told me that the experience had taught him that the Hayward, California, in some cases, "the law is not simply what the city says."

The arguments to the kernel of the authority and the responsibility for the management of Brookfield is a half-acre Granite Zuccotti Park, the financial District, which Occupy heaven against the Klimaflüchtlinge turned to the headquarters in mid-September. The Park has been created is permitted for the developers narrow the entire Liberty Street to build a 500,000 square feet of additional office space.

In return for the developers to create a public space, which is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Mr. Eisenstein and New York Civil Liberties Union to limit the access to the papers, the Brookfield Park only through a process that is forbidden by the City Planning Commission.

The Office of the District attorney of the City Law Department, objected that "the Brookfield Properties was faced with a situation in which the telttailuun, structures, sleeping bags, pillows, clothes, trash, and other personal property was created for the security option" and only to an effective legal remedy, by removing the Park people.

One of the judges asked Mr. Hayward Sciarrino, if he agreed, was the distinction between the rules of procedure and the rules for access. Mr. Hayward responded that he did, and that, in order to ensure that the "code of conduct, rules that the temporary closure, you will need to be effectuated."

Mr. Eisenstein is countered that the closure would be temporary because the metal barricades were closely surrounded by the Park, almost two months after the November 15 and that during this period the people were entering searches, according to the private security services.

The judge did not immediately rule on the motion of Sciarrino.

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The US military lawyer slams Afghan killings ' blackout '

Represents the United States military's mind killing 17 Afghan Villagers by condemned what he called a "blackout" which prevents him from his defence of the Convention.

Attorney John Henry Browne on Friday said he was prevented from interviewing witnesses and injured civilians, southern Afghanistan, following the alleged massacre earlier this month.

"The expected much more cooperation. The Prosecutor in this case, the promised us a lot of cooperation, of which the root is not high, "he told journalists in Seattle.

"We are facing almost the complete information blackout by the Government that a devastating effect on our ability to investigate the charges against our priorities," he added.

His client Sergeant Robert bales, 38, is known as the southern province Kandahar, he walked to the base on March 11 hours and is installed in the massacre nearby villages, many of his victims, women and children.

Browne met with his client in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas earlier this month in which Bales is charged with premeditated murder in the military area, and six counts of 17 counts and attempted murder.

But his team has made progress in only a little In the field. "When we tried to interview shall be dealt with in the Kandahar hospital, injured civilians, we were blocked and told to coordinate the prosecution," it said.

The next day, prosecutors interviewed injured civilians, but soon afterwards, Browne's Office is found to be "civilians, was released from the hospital had their contact information.

"In addition, we have blocked injured civilians for medical records to the Government, which makes even more impossible to locate and interview these crucial witnesses in their possession," it said.

"The prosecution is not the size of the file at the same time, investigations of possible witnesses, scattering the defense team Unknown and potentially available to the regions in Afghanistan."

Browne, who said his team also has not been alleged in the video, the Bales that the trial version for the military rules, it has not been "finding" the right before the 30 days prior to the start of the so-called article 32 preliminary hearing.

"In this case, they promised us if we can send people ... Afghanistan, cooperate with the available witnesses to us. And you appear to be in breach of that promise, "he said.

He also warned the defense, which has access to the "sanity" Bales over the next two months does not officially provide and prosecutors and results--may seize the cooperation.

"If they want to launch, in cooperation with the cooperation from us the better," he told reporters.

Browne said the post-traumatic stress disorder earlier this week, are almost certainly part of his defence is that the prosecutors are proving their case against the Bales.

Killings are still strained already difficult relationship between Kabul and Washington, all time low, the spate of deadly Korans Americans of anti-US protests earlier in the video, in which US Marines, on the Taliban militants corpses, urinating after saving.

US military officials declined to respond to the Browne's claims. But the army spokesman George Wright, told AFP: "the armed forces of the United States, the legal defence team to continue the Bales with in the coming months."

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Lawyer says Us blocks investigation of Afghan massacre

SEATTLE (Reuters)-the U.s. military in Afghanistan, civilians to defend the murdering 17-the accused lawyer claims the US authorities to prevent his ability.

John Henry Browne, staff sergeant Robert bales, a lawyer, said the US forces in Afghanistan, is prevented from attending, his team to interview any person crossing the injured civilians in a hospital, Kandahar and other potential witnesses in a scatter chart, find it difficult to keep track of them.

"My gut is, they do not have a lot of cases," Browne said at a press conference, his downtown Seattle Office Friday.

Bales was formally charged with the murder last week of eight adults and nine children in the pre-dawn Shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan on March 11 which undermines further the relations of the United States in the Afghan war strained already this decade.

He may prove to be the death penalty if convicted.

No date has been set for the proceedings, but the US military prosecutors are putting together their case, even though Browne is to prepare his defence.

Browne said he has a team of researchers in Afghanistan now, but they are a little cooperation in the military prosecutors received, which filed the charges.

"We are facing almost the complete information blackout by the Government that a devastating effect on our ability to investigate the charges against our priorities," he said in the statement released in the past.

A reliable account of the events of the night of The massacre is not yet born. The last report indicated the Afghan villagers doubt Bales acted alone. Other reports Suggest Bales left his base twice during the night.

"I do not think this is the case, but we can say that," Browne said Friday.

Browne said his investigators had spoken to U.s. soldiers in Afghanistan, but it was could not be any witnesses.

"When we tried to interview shall be treated in the Kandahar hospital, we were blocked and told to coordinate the prosecution, a group of injured civilians," Browne said in the statement.

"Next to the charge, the group interviewed civilians injured. We found shortly after the injured civilians to the charge, was released from the hospital, interviews with civilians and had them contact information. " This means, if any, of witnesses in the scatter chart, and can prove to be unreachable, Browne said.

Browne said it was too early to say whether or not there is a case to invoke the post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD or other psychological illness or problems with the Bale has been caused by the defence.

The next event is the Bales, which is running in the military detention centre is in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to submit to a mental health assessment of army doctors independent of the prosecution and the defence, in order to determine if he is fit to stand trial, is called "the sanity of the Board" in the armed forces. That could take several months, Browne said.

The military judicial system requires that from occurring after the end of the preliminary hearing, which is known as the "article" at the hearing, whether or not strong enough in the case of the Court of Justice, which was able to do so.

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Philip Corboy Harnett, Jr. Receives Distinguished Alumni Award from DePaul ...-EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

CHICAGO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Corboy & Demetrio partner Philip Harnett Corboy, Jr. has received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012, the DePaul University College of Law. Philip "Flip" Corboy, Jr. is a law school in 1977. Corboy was used in his leadership roles in the legal community, for his lifelong work of charitable organisations, and his 35 years of achievements in the trial as a lawyer.

"This is the biggest difference in the Law College may bestow. The invitation to tender is to recognize alumni who have reached the pinnacle of their career, the level of the career of excellence in their lifetime. "

"This is the biggest difference in the Law College may bestow. The invitation to tender shall be identified on the basis of the former, who have reached the pinnacle of their career, the level of the career of excellence in their lifetime, "according to Gregory, Mark, Dean, DePaul University College of Law.

Translate Corboy in recent Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the legal assistance Foundation of Chicago, the nation's second-largest legal aid agency of the Government of the previous President. The flip was inducted in 2002 into the American College of trial lawyers, the nation's call for greater democratization of the Organization, only the trial version of the lawyers, which are the best.

Received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012, is only one of many of the United States, Corboy has received his trial as a lawyer. The flip was named to the best lawyers in America, the 2012 Edition of personal injury litigation. This was the seventh year the line Corboy obtained such a fortune. His Chicago law firm, Corboy was the best companies in the Chicago law and Demetrio Helsinki metropolitan area designated by U.S. News in the market, which will be published in the US News and World Report.

Translate Corboy was given the designation of a the eighth line of the Illinois Super lawyer elite of the year 2012. Corboy was also named Top 100 lawyers Illinois Illinois Super lawyers, the fourth straight year.

In addition, leading lawyers network, the leading Corboy is the lawyer of the prestigious designation for nine consecutive years, after the inception of the.

Translate Corboy record success. He has tried more than 55, or, in cases where appropriate have inherited $ 1 million or more. These successes include the 2011 Rockford, Illinois, the woman, who died in a train derailment; family solution to 22.5 million dollars for 18 million dollars for the settlement of the Mexican national back to downtown Chicago; the glass piece in the record setting 17 million dollars put to the jury for the lunnaina of the brain damaged, the victim, who had myyntiprovisioksi the sedan; 11 million dollar settlement Chicago dental students burned car fire; a record-setting 7 of 78-year-old woman, a million dollars, which was injured when he was struck in the automatic door; and the record-setting of the 4.5 million dollar lunnaina Central Illinois-a couple that were in the car that was hit pizza delivery car.

Throughout his career Turn Corboy has shown strong commitment to public service. Before becoming a nationally recognized personal injury lawyer, Assistant State Attorney of Cook County on the State Attorney's Office in the coming seven years, "first Chair", the public prosecutor's Office and the main t?rkeist?.

The compilation is also maintained close relations with the law school that taught him. Corboy DePaul University College of Law Dean's Council and the President of the Board of Directors of the Club over the DePaul University.

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Gabriel Aubry Grilled By Halle Berry's Lawyer Under Oath - TMZ.com

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Gabriel Aubry is being grilled today under oath by Halle Berry's lawyer -- and we're told the end game for Halle is for Gabriel to admit he has plenty of free time to travel back and forth to France to visit Nahla.

Gabriel arrived at the office of Halle's lawyer Stephen Kolodny moments ago -- after a quick lunch with his own lawyer Gary Fishbein -- and we asked him several questions on the block-and-a-half walk (above). Gabriel wasn't in a talkative mood.

But here's the deal -- as we first reported, Halle wants to move to Paris with Nahla and fiance Olivier Martinez. Sources tell us Halle's lawyer will ask Gabriel about his work commitments. We're told he works very sporadically as a model and Halle believes he can still maintain a meaningful, long-distance relationship with Nahla as a result.

Gabriel has vehemently objected to the proposed move, which must be approved by the custody judge.

We're also told Kolodny will ask Gabriel about Halle's allegations that he has neglected Nahla and even put her in danger.

And, we're told finances are a subject of the depo, because Gabriel is asking Halle to pay child support and his lawyer's fees.

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Dennis Rodman's lawyer, says he is not a Deadbeat dad

Dennis Rodman's lawyer said Wednesday that a retired NBA player does not have a "deadbeat dad," following the court papers filed Tuesday alleged debt of more than $ 800,000 Rodman child support.

"In such a way that it makes it sound like he is painted in terrible shape," Rodman's lawyer, Linnea Willis, told ABCNews.com. "This makes him sound like he is a deadbeat, who is dead. This is Dennis Rodman has always paid child support to the best of its ability, and so on. "

On Tuesday, Rodman's ex-wife, Michelle Rodman, papers filed in a Los Angeles court, request the lawyer owes more than $ 800,000 Rodman back child support and the consequences for the couple's 9-10 children under three years of age on 1 March. He was ordered to pay his ex-wife $ 50000 per month child support. Reply to Willis filed motion of the month $ 50000 per order.

He said that the warrant has been issued for the year 2010 without Dennis ' real income, but rather was based on his ex-wife by the exaggerated number of inputs to the Bützow. " He also said that Rodman has not been duly notified of the legal documents.

Rodman's Manager, Darren Prince said Rodman is the payment of "at least 4 000 or 5 000 $," his ex-wife on a monthly basis. Willis said the Court "there is no evidence that all of the contributions that were made."

"The only thing that was a question of the month, was certain that his attorney, he paid for something, but it was not enough," Willis said.

Finally, for the hearing is set may 29 Rodman. When the attorney ex-wife said Rodman faces his insolvency or the child and spouse support time in jail, Willis said the judge, "it clearly shown he does not intend to give him jail time."

Michelle Rodman's lawyer, Jack Kayajanian did not respond to the requests for comment about the ABCNews.com: n.

Willis clarified Rodman: n option. Tuesday, the court documents described in the former Chicago Bulls star rebound as "very sick."

"In such a way that it makes the sound of the painted, such as he is, he is not a terrible shape," he said. "He plays, he plays, he makes appearances in China."

On Tuesday, Prince, Rodman's Manager, told ABCNews.com Rodman sidelined her well-documented drinking problem. " Willis claimed that his setbacks, Rodman still a good terms with his ex-wife and children.

"Every time he sees the children and each time they have to talk about," he said. "He loves her still. The end is not contentious. "

Dennis Rodman and Michelle Rodman married in 2003 after dating for four years. Michelle Rodman filed for divorce in 2004, but their marriage is not officially broke up until earlier this year to try to reconciliation.

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Lindsay Lohan lawyer behind the

When Lindsay Lohan showed up in court on Thursday, the public had not been as great as it has been the actor — prediction might be a resolution, show a dramatic shift that has made her a five-year legal saga as imperative as any Sort of TV to reality.

25-year-old Lohan is out of jail and rehab, and so many times, his story looked like the arc-line.

He blew the cell therapy and the use of community service, and a check mark in the economic management of the judges. Never know what you think of his courtroom — a tearful plea for Norway pout in the vulgar taunt painted fingernail.

But one thing has never seemed to change by: Holley 's, so the movie-Star Shawn for his client, but rather is Pitt's rough to smooth edges smooth presence of gravitas.

I have been dragging for Lohan. He is a talented actor, a screen image of the Tribunal are angsty-mix, innocence and Defiance. His movies "means" Girls "and" Friday "is the classic Favorites to my daughters.

But the bad role-modeling. A fan, as I found Lohan's missteps disappointment. As a mother, I found his jaunts exhausting. He became a symbol of the Trocadero self absorption, which has become routine for some young women — and I mean not just Hollywood starlets.

As I followed him to the kehiin mount — two DUIs and jewellery theft — I took an odd Sort of comfort from the presence of Holley 's. They showed me more than a client and a lawyer.

When Lohan was sentenced to jail in 2010, he sobbed Holley's shoulder, courtroom. When Lohan was handcuffed in 2011, Holley's appeared as his client led out of the Court of Justice, as if, in the opinion of the legal counsel could be a bear to watch.

On Thursday, the Holley's scribbled on his legal pad in the notes to the financial statements, such as a judge for the progress of the Lohan complimented. He gets himself in the slightest smile when the judge pronounced Lohan's probation "has been decided."

We have seen the Bush and Holley's hug. We have been consulted, Lohan's whispered "I love you."

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A few hours after Bush had been released, I want to meet his lawyer. My 30 minute drive I heard Bush's Court three times on the radio story. He was wearing a "tight fitting blue pantsuit," one of the innostaja intoned.

He was not. It was more blue-green, and it was tailored to the Marienplatz — a conservative, if you have 25.

It seems we cannot object to the dig, even if his most triumphant in the morning. This reflects his or her bad girl persona. And that World War II Holley 's.

"Lindsay is incredibly strong, but he is also very sensitive to" Holley's said. "I can imagine what it must be like his, and to know how much people are kind of their own downfall. That has been difficult, hurtful. And he does not deserve. "

Speaking of celebrity lawyer — but it also has a 9-year-old daughter, who got his start time, from a strictly legal point of the public defender, which still remembers the woman my mom r??t?l?innist? misadventures.

"Is only that it was fun," said Holley 's, who went to the UCLA Fairfax high education in English, Washington spent the years of the Southwestern Law School Prep enrolled then, because he did not know what to do with his life.

He had spent a lot of time around the lawyers ' associations. His mother — who had one and 19, Holley's was born — was a legal Secretary who earned his MBA night at school and the management of the business of the year.

Holley's got his Start in the car thieves and the legal status of the interviewing of crack cocaine addicts. "Walk this [courtroom] holding container, concerned by the application and is hot and it stinks and is a nasty," he said. And no one to understand their legal rights. Most were ready to rely on, he said, although they were a legitimate defense.

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Sacramento personal injury lawyers open law group, Demas-PR Web (press release)

Sacramento, California (PRWEB) 30. March 2012

Sacramento injury Bützow group if the group to start a new course of Demas. The company began operations under the name in 2012, this March. The company's primary function is to serve the Sacramento community a wide range of personal injury matters. The company is made up of a Sacramento personal injury lawyer, with a common experience of injured to help customers in California for decades.

Demas-the group led by John n. Demas. Mr. Demas has been successfully dealt with in the case of personal injury case, the Sacramento, California area in 20 years, including the undue death, catastrophic injury and defective products claims. He is represented by the auto, trucking and construction accidents. Mr. Demas has earned the reputation of a lawyer, customers and insurance companies, which are similar to the vigilance with regard to the opinion of the Advocate General at the injured victims. Some of the Sacramento County is the largest in the history of the court procedures have led to his skills and knowledge. He was selected by his peers as the "Northern California Super Lawyers 2009, 2010 and 2011, the exclusive honor, only less than 5% of all lawyers and approximately 1% of the plaintiff personal injury to Bützow. He recognized recently as the trial lawyer of the year Capitol City trial version/the Advocate General lawyers ' Association, the extraordinary results of the studies and the work of consumers ' rights, recognition of the intrepid is activated. In addition, Mr. Demas has been granted membership of the American Board of trial advocates (ABOTA), and is a 10/10 rating, the highest possible rating of prominent attorney rating web site Avvo.com. He is also right in the Organization of the nation's senior Roundtable, in the case of personal injury Bützow 100 member.

Demas Law Group is committed to its customers with the best possible results. The main aim is to serve the needs of an open communication, not compassion and strong ethical values, through the members of the community. Personal injury lawyer law group, Demas, the legal specialized, experience and diligence, and the security log for all of the resources of the exceptional legal assistance and personal service. The success of the fishing activities of their entries in includes a number of seven figure settlement and court procedures, and has earned the United States a peer-to-peer and community.

Demas, a group of law has received the "AV" rating, the highest possible rating in Martindale-Hubbell national. In addition, the company has been given the highest marks "to meet the professional standards of conduct, ethics, reliability and care."

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Lawyer Says Zuccotti Park Demonstrators Broke No Law - New York Times (blog)

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Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesPolice officers in Zuccotti Park, on Nov. 15, 2011 where they removed tents and arrested Occupy Wall Street protesters.

When hundreds of police officers entered Zuccotti Park early on Nov. 15, they dismantled tents and other structures that had been erected by Occupy Wall Street protesters in defiance of rules established in September by the park’s owner, Brookfield Properties.

The police also arrested dozens of protesters who refused to leave the park, charging them with offenses that included trespassing and disorderly conduct, as officers set up metal barricades around the park’s perimeter.

On Friday, a defense lawyer argued in Criminal Court in Manhattan that such charges filed against two of his clients should be dismissed.

While it might be appropriate for Brookfield to establish rules governing behavior in the park, the lawyer said, the company could not order people out of the park, because an agreement with the city required it to be open to the public 24 hours a day.

“Brookfield lacked the authority to exclude people,” the lawyer, Jethro M. Eisenstein, argued in support of a motion to dismiss the charges, contending that it was “unseemly and unjust to allow Brookfield to harness the power of the state” to clear the park of protesters.

But an assistant district attorney told Judge Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr. that the company was within its rights to revoke permission for protesters to be in the park while the police and sanitation workers removed banned structures.

“They have to have the ability to enforce rules,” the prosecutor, Ryan Hayward, said. “They did deem it necessary to close that park.”

Judge Sciarrino asked both sides to clarify certain points. He asked Mr. Eisenstein if he thought the rules allowed people to use Zuccotti Park for any purpose. Later, he told Mr. Hayward that experience had taught him that sometimes, “the law is not simply what the city says it is.”

At the heart of the arguments is the issue of what authority and responsibilities Brookfield has in managing Zuccotti Park, a half-acre granite expanse in the financial district that the Occupy protesters turned into a headquarters in mid-September. The park was created under an agreement that allowed developers of a skyscraper across Liberty Street to build 500,000 extra square feet of office space.

In return, the developers created a public space that would be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

According to papers filed by Mr. Eisenstein and the New York Civil Liberties Union, Brookfield can limit public access to the park only after going through a process that involves gaining the approval of the City Planning Commission.

The district attorney’s office, along with the city’s Law Department, disagreed, writing that “Brookfield Properties was faced with a situation where the volume of tenting, structures, sleeping bags, pillows, clothes, trash and other personal property had created a safety condition,” and that the only effective remedy involved clearing people from the park.

At one point, Judge Sciarrino asked Mr. Hayward if he agreed that there was a distinction between rules of conduct and rules of access. Mr. Hayward replied that he did and that in order “to ensure compliance with rules of conduct that temporary closure needed to be effectuated.”

Mr. Eisenstein countered that the closure could not accurately be termed temporary because metal barricades surrounded the park for nearly two months after Nov. 15, and that people entering during that time were subject to searches by private security guards.

Judge Sciarrino did not rule immediately on the motion.

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Reginald E. Gilliam Jr., lawyer and lobbyist - Washington Post

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Reginald E. Gilliam Jr., a lawyer and lobbyist who served as a senior executive for Sodexo, a Gaithersburg-based food and facilities management company, died March 28 at George Washington University Hospital. He was 67.

He had complications from lymphoma, said his wife, Arleen Gilliam.

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Personal Post(Courtesy of Gilliam Family) - Reginald E. Gilliam Jr., right, a lawyer and lobbyist who served as a senior executive for Sodexo, a Gaithersburg food and facilities management company, died March 28 at George Washington University Hospital.

Mr. Gilliam, the son of a Pullman railroad car porter, was a Harvard-educated lawyer. He first came to the Washington region in 1975 as the legislative counsel to Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio).

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Mr. Gilliam to the Interstate Commerce Commission, a regulatory body that oversees the railroad, long-haul trucking and passenger bus industries. In his three years at the commission, he advocated the hiring and promotion of minorities.

During the mid-1980s, he served as New York state’s director of commercial transportation under Gov. Mario Cuomo (D) before becoming chief of staff for Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

In 1993, Mr. Gilliam joined the lobbying firm Hill and Knowlton, where his clients included the city of Cleveland and the Republic of Botswana. He was senior managing director at Hill and Knowlton before joining Sodexo in 2002. He helped establish the firm’s government affairs office and was a senior vice president at the time of his death.

Reginald Earl Gilliam Jr. was born Dec. 29, 1944, in New York’s Harlem neighborhood. He was a 1965 graduate of Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania. He was a 1968 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he helped found the Harvard Black Law Students Association.

He taught political science at Williams College in Massachusetts before moving to Washington.

Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Arleen Fain Gilliam, of Vienna.

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