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Byline: Sharif Durhams
Mar. 7--HILLSBOROUGH -- A UNC Chapel Hill graduate who police say drove an SUV into a crowd of students last week said Monday his trial will offer a lesson on "the will of Allah, the creator." An Orange County district court judge formally set Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar's bail at $5.5 million and scheduled a hearing for March 16. The December 2005 UNC graduate and former Charlotte resident told Judge Patricia Devine he would represent himself. He tried to silence a public defender the judge appointed to help him. "Allah is my lawyer," Taheri-azar, 22, told reporters and hecklers outside the county courthouse as sheriff's deputies put him in a car to return him to Raleigh's Central Prison.
Taheri-azar's court appearance was his first since the incident that injured nine students at an outdoor campus hub called The Pit.…