Saturday, February 13, 2010

Follow Up : Suzanne Tamim Murder Trial Appeal Saga

The last 4th of February Egypt witnessed another episode in the big soap opera "Suzanne Tamim" trial. There was a big speculation that the appeal of Hisham Talaat Mustafa in specific would be accepted on that day due to his influence thus starting the trial from all over again. We speculated so because he hired famous criminal lawyer Bahaa Abu Shouka and his associated Dr. Amal Othman. 'Famous former minister'.
Hisham and Suzanne
The famous doomed couple of the decade
well it did not go as expected despite of course it is not the end for Hisham and Sokary. Thanks to the fight and rivalry inside Hisham defense team , the court has decided to say its final word in the murder case next March the 4th.
The conflict inside Hisham defense team is feared to make him lose the appeal.Now the court got two different defense teams for the same convicted and two different sets of reasons for appeal and I think this is why the court delayed its final word to next month.
The court witnessed a big show from Farid El-dib's side to show that he is better than Abu Shouka on the expense of his client. El-dib presented to the court an appeal memo made of 240 papers , he talked for hours over the expense of Abu Shouka and his team. He also did not respect the seniority of other defense team members "Amal Othman'. Then after the trial he made his usual news night talk shows tour attacking the other team with no respect to his client best interest.
Abu Shouka had to fire back on his turn threatening Hisham's family that he would leave the case if El-dib does not stop.
I am not surprised by El-dib's behavior , he only cares about himself.
I will not expect or speculate anything despite as most of Egyptians I will not be surprised if the court accepts the appeal and rewind one of Egypt's most controversial and longest murder cases.
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous2/14/2010 06:08:00 AM

    I think the court was wise to delay after being nice and allowing El-Deeb to talk for hours. What he did is against the very nature of that level of High Court and also shows a lot of arrogance because all he said was/should be in his memo and this is not the court to do oral presentations at all. However, I understand why the judges allowed it and also decided for the delay bec I think there is a determination not to leave any gaps open for any claims of injustice. I also think the court will eventually stay the convictions for both and seriously both HTM teams are stupid not to work on getting our Soukaray bec he is the key to all this.
    As for the rift in the team, I'm wondering where is HTM's family, why is this allowed?

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  2. islandgirl4ever22/15/2010 08:55:00 AM

    Thanks for the update! We don't get any news here ... I hope that justice will be served finally.... but who knows...

    Take care and keep us posted!!!
    Leesa

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  3. Zeinobia2/15/2010 07:23:00 PM

    @anonymous, actually El-Dib is insisting on getting out El-Soukary where as Abu Shouka is insisting that El-Soukary will bring his client down
    Regarding the family well they are trying to fix between them, Saher reportedly was moving during the session between the two lawyers !!

    @Leesa, thank you dear :)

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