The BBC understands that the Lawrence team are meeting next week to assess where the case now stands - and what the Yard as a whole can learn from this remarkable cold case turnaround.

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The Oklahoma case stands out as an extreme move to restrict the behavior of political activists.

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Tory former chancellor and foreign secretary Lord Howe of Aberavon also said he was "certainly not persuaded of the case being made for the bill as it stands".

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As it stands, the case involves seven patents that mostly touch on staple technologies of the modern mobile world, such as syncing messages between devices and bookmarking media playback on one device to resume on another.

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Instead, we got a look at a pair of Nyko speaker stands for the PlayStation Vita and the Kindle Fire, as well as a battery powered case for Amazon's slate.

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