An appeal court in Paris ordered the release of convicted wartime criminal Maurice Papon, center, Wednesday Sept. 18, 2002. Papon, seen on Feb. 5, 1999, with his lawyer Jean-Marc Varaut, second left, was serving a ten-year sentence for his involvment in the deportation of 1,500 Jews of the Bordeaux area during World War II. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)