Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard Yankee fan, having to spend the summer in Beantown is about as bad as Oliver Barrett III having to attend law school in New Haven...
...attended Cambridge School in Weston. Mass. before coming to Harvard. where he played on the cross-country ski team and photographed for The Crimson. He planned to attend medical school after graduating from Harvard...
...came as a stunning shock to many last week when the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote, ruled that the public has no constitutional right under the "public trial" guarantee of the Sixth Amendment to attend criminal trials. The ruling undercuts a fundamental assumption of open democracy. It is also by far the court's sharpest blow to the press in a long string of such adverse rulings. At its narrowest, the decision means that pre-trial hearings could be closed when the judge finds a defendant's rights may be prejudiced. At its worst...
...defendant's right to a fair trial. The Sixth Amendment's public-trial guarantee belongs only to the criminally accused, wrote Stewart, not to the public itself. He specifically refused to concede that the press or the public possesses a constitutional right, under the First Amendment, to attend criminal trials. Even if such a right of "access" did exist, Stewart went on, it would have to yield to a defendant's guarantee of a fair trial...
Justice William Rehnquist, who also concurred, would go much further: defendants, prosecutors and judges should be free to bar press and public from any trial for any reason they choose. Staking out the hardest-line position of all, he declared that the public has absolutely no right to attend any criminal proceedings. A trial court, Rehnquist added, "is not required by the Sixth Amendment to advance any reason whatsoever for declining to open a pretrial hearing to the public." He specifically rejected the notion that the First Amendment is "some kind of constitutional 'sunshine...