1. Amina Lawal handing baby to woman who carries her into lawyer's office 2. Mid of Lawal seated holding baby daughter
3. Mid of Lawal's lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim at desk
4. Close up of Lawal's baby, pulls to mid of Lawal smiling
5. Side shot of Lawal and lawyer
6. Close up of baby's hands in her lap, then her face as she leans forward to camera, pulls out to mid of Lawal
7. Mid of Lawal breast feeding baby
8. Close up of Lawal's face
9. Baby asleep in Lawal's arms
10. Close up of Lawal's face while she rocks baby
11. Close up of baby asleep
12. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Amina Lawal:
"After the case, I want to get married, to settle down and to have a normal life."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Hauwa Ibrahim, Lawyer for Amina Lawal:
"There are a lot of faults technically, factually, legally and procedurally. So we address those issues of procedure, of law, of technicalities in the appeal court and we say to them, in the trial court they didn't recognise some of the basic facts, like she had a right to counsel at the trial court. She had no lawyer."
13. Wide of Lawal and sleeping baby
STORYLINE:
The Nigerian woman condemned to stoning by an Islamic court for having sex outside marriage said she hopes to marry and live a normal life if her appeal is successful.
Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, Amina Lawal declined to speak on the controversy over the Miss World pageant or on religious differences in Nigeria .
Shying away from political questions, the 31-year-old single mother only repeated that she wanted to be allowed to settle back into a normal family life.
Lawal, who has two other children from previous marriages, was first sentenced in March after giving birth to a daughter more than nine months after divorcing.
She lost her first appeal against the ruling in a Shariah, or Islamic law, court on August 19.
Hauwa Ibrahim, Lawal's lawyer, said that she is hopeful for their next appeal case which will be based on alleged misconduct during the trial, including the failure to provide legal counsel for the defendant.
These two appeals are to successively higher Islamic courts, but if the next one fails, Lawal can appeal to the Supreme Court, where the case would force a showdown between Nigeria's constitutional and religious authorities.
The introduction of Shariah in a dozen northern states has sparked clashes between the country's Christians and Muslims.
President Olusegun Obasanjo's government has declared Shariah punishments such as beheadings, stonings and amputations unconstitutional.
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