Word: bailiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Darden: Your Honor, if it pleases the court, can we adjourn and continue this Monday morning? Your Honor, will the court instruct the bailiff to assist Ms. Brown if she needs assistance...
...times the movie's antics and silliness get repetitive and infantile, as when, in the same courtroom scene, Ned continually hurls new evidence at the bailiff as if it were a football. The movie also disappointingly borrows certain "Naked Gun" gimmicks, like having Ned's hair freeze in the direction the wind blew it during a car ride...
...high drama. This is high not high drama. This is high tedium, even for the consumers. In the benches in the rear, a few manage to read a newspaper, but no one can concentrate enough to read a book. There is, of course, no talking, as the bailiff is quick to remind anyone who happens to forget. One ends up simply watching, and waiting...
...Didn't you hear the scuffling when the bailiff rushed in and grabbed...
...violated a direct order of the court. I had to make a judgment call. She made her stand, I made my stand. It was a one-day case, and while it was going on, I had her held in my private holding cell at the courthouse. I had the bailiff stay with her and bring her a nice sandwich. The jury convicted her husband. And then...