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From: "Rich Gauszka"
plus during Voir Dire any potentional jurist that ever browsed the net
will be excluded
"Gary Britt" wrote in
message news:464b5e01$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> This judge's next case will be a large software patent dispute involving
> web2 technology.
>
> Gary
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> "I haven't quite grasped the concepts."
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070516/wr_nm/security_britain_internet_dc_1;_yl
t=AlOlJt5aHpltqGbjIhRxcUpkM3wV
>>
>> LONDON (Reuters) - A British judge admitted on Wednesday he was
>> struggling to cope with basic terms like "Web site" in
the trial of three
>> men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet
>> Judge Peter Openshaw broke into the questioning of a witness about a Web
>> forum used by alleged Islamist radicals.
>>
>> "The trouble is I don't understand the language. I don't really
>> understand what a Web site is," he told a London court during the trial
>> of three men charged under anti-terrorism laws.
>>
>> Prosecutor Mark Ellison briefly set aside his questioning to explain the
>> terms "Web site" and "forum." An exchange
followed in which the judge
>> acknowledged: "I haven't quite grasped the concepts."
>>
>> Violent Islamist material posted on the Internet, including beheadings of
>> Western hostages, is central to the case.
>>
>> Concluding Wednesday's session and looking ahead to testimony on Thursday
>> by a computer expert, the judge told Ellison: "Will you ask him to keep
>> it simple, we've got to start from basics."
>>
>> Younes Tsouli, 23, Waseem Mughal, 24, and Tariq al-Daour, 21, deny a
>> range of charges under Britain's Terrorism Act, including inciting
>> another person to commit an act of terrorism "wholly or
partly" outside
>> Britain.
>>
>> Tsouli and Mughal also deny conspiracy to murder. Al-Daour has pleaded
>> not guilty to conspiring with others to defraud banks, credit card and
>> charge card companies.
>>
>> Prosecutors have told the jury at Woolwich Crown Court, east London, that
>> the defendants kept car-bomb-making manuals and videos of how to wire
>> suicide vests as part of a campaign to promote global jihad, or holy war.
>>
>> The trial continues.
>>
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