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"I thought I loved him, but now, when I look back, I feared him so much. I was his slave."

That was span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"Sharhazad/span Mir span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"Gholikhan/span during her 7 hours of direct testimony over the last two days before Judge span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"Cohn/span. She has been representing herself during this retrial (Bill span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"Barzee/span represented her during the first trial and has been standby counsel in this case. He directed her.) The prosecutor only had 5 minutes of cross after 7 hours of direct. Smart move? We're about to find out. Closing arguments are this morning.br /br /Here's Vanessa span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"Blum's/span a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbgoggles1217pndec17,0,4930438.story"coverage of this fascinating trial/a:br /br /emAs an Iranian woman, span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"Sharhazad/span Mir span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"Gholikhan/span says she was required to wear a head covering, forced to marry a man she barely knew and forbidden to travel without her husband's consent.But in the /ema class="taxInTextAdLink taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100403070000" onmouseover="taxInTextOver(event,this);" title="Fort Lauderdale" onmouseout="taxInTextOut(event,this);" href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/us/florida/broward-county/fort-lauderdale-PLGEO100100403070000.topic"emFort span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"Lauderdale/span/em/aa href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/custom/consumer/sfl-restaurantinspections-database,0,5864281.framedurl?track=intext"/aem /ememfederal courtroom where span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"Gholikhan/span is on trial, the 31-year-old mother is making her own decisions and acting as her own attorney.span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"Gholikhan's/span defense to charges she tried to export American-made night vision goggles to Iran: that she had no choice but to obey the orders of her former husband, who dragged her into the illegal plot."Once you get married in Iran, your husband has control over you," she told the American jury deciding her case.br /The jury is expected to begin deliberating today. If convicted, she could face more than 10 years in prison./em

Full post as published by Southern District of Florida on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).