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Law Practice

Oct. 31, 2008

Emotions Run High in Chevron Case As Lead Plaintiff Testifies

A Nigerian man's three widows and two of his sons covered their faces and sobbed in court Wednesday as an attorney showed jurors a picture of the man killed during a protest on a Chevron oil platform 10 years ago.

By Rebecca Beyer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - A Nigerian man's three widows and two of his sons covered their faces and sobbed in court Wednesday as an attorney showed jurors a picture of the man killed during a protest on a Chevron oil platform 10 years ago.

Their emotion and the tears of another Nigerian, Larry Bowoto, who was on the witness stand at the time, forced U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco to take a five...

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