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Anger after Bali bomb lawyer stages walk-out Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta January 12, 2007 A LAWYER for the three Bali bombers on death row yesterday walked out of Bali's Denpasar District Court, angering judges hearing last-ditch appeals against their executions. The judges ordered that the last possible review of the convictions go ahead. Lawyers had demanded that the hearing be transferred from Bali to a court in central Java near where the so-called "smiling assassin" Amrozi, his brother Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are imprisoned. The fate of the three men is now in the hands of Indonesia's Supreme Court in Jakarta. The men's appeals are based on claims that their trials were unconstitutional because they were charged under anti-terrorism laws that were introduced after they carried out the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202, including 88 Australians. Legal experts say the bombers have strong "in-principle" grounds for claiming that their convictions were unconstitutional because of a 2004 ruling by the country's Constitutional Court. But they say Supreme Court judges are unlikely to acknowledge the ruling and will probably dismiss the appeals. After the lawyer, Fahmi Bachmid, walked out of court yesterday, prosecutors urged the judges to recommend that the men's submissions be rejected. Putu Indriati, who prosecuted Ghufron, told reporters outside the court that by walking out, the lawyer had "obstructed justice". Amrozi, Ghufron and Samudra are on death row on the prison island of Nusakambangan. They have told their lawyers they are ready to die. But Achmad Michdan, one of their lawyers, said last week that he had convinced them that even though they are ready to face the firing squad "they cannot be executed unlawfully". With AAP
