Lawyer: 4 U.S. journalists charged in Bahrain leaving country

Four U.S. journalists arrested in Bahrain while covering the anniversary of the island nation’s 2011 uprising were charged, released and heading for the airport Tuesday to fly out of the country, a lawyer said.

Despite charging them, Bahraini officials allowed them to head for the airport, apparently after the intervention of the U.S. Embassy in Manama. Bahrain is the home of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, which patrols the Persian Gulf and surrounding waterways crucial to the global oil trade.

But their arrest and charges highlight the sensitivity the kingdom still feels five years after the uprising, as low-level unrest and protests continue.

The journalists had left a police station after meeting with prosecutors and were on their way to the airport to fly out Tuesday night, lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi told The Associated Press. Authorities kept their cameras and computers, al-Jishi said.

The reporters had been held since their arrests Sunday while covering protests in Sitra, a Shiite community outside of the capital, Manama.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2520226/lawyer-4-u-s-journalists-charged-in-bahrain-leaving-country/

FAROOK LAWYER COMPARES SAN BERNARDINO MASSACRE TO SANDY HOOK

Attorney David Chesley said “it doesn’t seem plausible to us that this petite woman [Malik] would be involved in this sort of hyper-caricatured, Bonnie and Clyde crazy scenario.

“There were a lot of questions drawn with Sandy Hook and whether or not that was a real incident or not.

“There’s a lot of people that said it happened but hasn’t happened in the way that it was purported to have taken place.

Farook Lawyer Compares San Bernardino Massacre to Sandy Hook

Prosecutors say lawyer urged clients to lie; defendant argues that’s not true, awaits fate

 The question of when lawyers cross the line from zealously defending their clients to fabricating evidence is the focus of a rare trial in Chicago, where an attorney is accused of coaching defendants and witnesses to lie.

http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/08/27/lawyer-on-trial-accused-of-coaching-witnesses-to-lie

Guinea’s ex-junta leader blocked from returning, lawyer says

Guinea’s ex-junta leader was blocked from returning to the country, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Moussa “Dadis” Camara’s plane was diverted to Ghana, lawyer Jean Baptiste Haba said. Camara was to make a connection in Ivory Coast, but Ivorian officials said they were asked by Guinean authorities not to allow Camara and his four companions to land in Abidjan, Haba said. Camara had reportedly been blocked from going through Ivory Coast earlier this month, his party said.

Camara is back in Burkina Faso, where he has been in exile since 2010.

But Guinea government spokesman Albert Damantang Camara, no relation to the former leader, denied blocking his return.

“The Guinean government has never prevented the return of Dadis to Guinea. He’s Guinean, he is free to return to his country,” he said. “It’s instead that there’s a problem with the law, and justice is sovereign and independent.”

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/08/26/guineas-ex-junta-leader-blocked-from-returning-lawyer-says

To Bar Abortion, Alabama Appoints Lawyer for Fetus, Strips Incarcerated Mother of Parental Rights

Doe has asked a federal judge to allow her to obtain an abortion. Doe’s counsel, provided by theAmerican Civil Liberties Union, says to deny his client’s right to an abortion amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. “It appears to me that what the state is attempting to do is turn Jane Doe into a vessel, and control every aspect of her life, forcing her to give birth to a baby, which she has decided she does not want to do,” Randall Marshall, one of Doe’s attorneys, told the Huffington Post. “The case has certainly moved to this new dimension, but welcome to Alabama.”

Marshall also told AL.com: “From a legal standpoint, it seems like nonsense.”

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/to-bar-abortion-alabama-appoints-lawyer-for-fetus-strips-incarcerated-mother-of-parental-rights-150731?news=857094

TO BAR ABORTION, ALABAMA APPOINTS LAWYER FOR FETUS, STRIPS INCARCERATED MOTHER OF PARENTAL RIGHTS

A Lauderdale County prison inmate identified as Jane Doe has sought permission to travel to a clinic to abort her pregnancy, which occurred before she was locked up.

The local district attorney, Chris Connolly, is fighting the request and has even gone so far as to ask the juvenile court hearing the case to strip Doe of her parental rights, which would legally bar her from ending her pregnancy.

The court has appointed a lawyer (a guardian ad litem) to represent the woman’s fetus.

http://www.infowars.com/to-bar-abortion-alabama-appoints-lawyer-for-fetus-strips-incarcerated-mother-of-parental-rights/