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By Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Lawyers for deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi withdrew in protest after he appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt. Mursi's legal team protested they could not hear their client speak from inside a soundproof glass cage. The judge ordered a lawyer's syndicate to assign 10 lawyers to defend Mursi at the trial's next hearing on February 23. In what they call "the biggest case of conspiracy in the history of Egypt", prosecutors say Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood hatched a "terrorist plan" in 2005 involving the Palestinian Hamas group as well as Shi'ite Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.More...