Word: bailiff
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...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...
...third break for Antwan: McNamara, who worked as a night bailiff to get through law school, is actually on Fishkin's side this time. She was born and raised in New Jersey in a blue-collar family; her hard-nosed reputation is a reflection of a strong sense of outrage at the inner-city disaster. "Sometimes," she says, "I get home at night and I think my name is 'Bitch.' They stop being kids to you after a while. Some of them are vicious and nasty. They'd shoot you in a heartbeat...
...rise," intones Bailiff Marlene Augustine, and as they have more than 2,000 times before, the jurors and lawyers dutifully comply. Into courtroom 14 of the St. Clair County building in Belleville, Ill., strides the Hon. Richard Goldenhersh, presiding judge in the matter of Frances E. Kemner et al. v. Monsanto Co., Case No. 80-L-970 in the 20th Circuit, State of Illinois. The judge nods a greeting, settles into his leather chair, and trial day No. 534 begins. Another record...