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- Title: Chaos in the Courtroom: Controlling Disruptive Defendants and Contumacious Counsel in war Crimes Trials.
- Author : Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 298 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION The Saddam Hussein Trial will no doubt be remembered as one of the messiest trials in legal history. During the eight-month long "Dujail" trial (October 2005-August 2006), Saddam Hussein, his seven codefendants, and their dozen lawyers regularly disparaged the judges, interrupted witness testimony with outbursts, turned cross-examination into political diatribes, and staged frequent walk-outs and boycotts) The first Presiding Judge, Rizgar Amin, was pressured to resign due to the perception that he had lost the battle of the wills against Saddam Hussein, and the replacement judge, Ra'ouf Abdul Rahman, often shouted angrily at the defendants and repeatedly tossed them and their lawyers out of the courtroom. The trial was the first ever to be televised gavel-to-gavel in any Middle Eastern country, enabling the world to witness the daily scenes of chaos in the courtroom.
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