Word: bailiffs
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...summonses had commanded all offenders to appear at 9 a.m. At 9:30, to the chant of "Stand up! Stand up!" repeated by boosters in various corners of the room, wizened Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 entered the court through a curtain behind the bench. The bailiff bellowed in 17th century English that it was March 8th and that Court was in session...
Judge Stone pulled the receiver of his hearing aid outside his coat and started on the drunks. A ragged little skid row resident leaped to his feet when the bailiff called out his name. He heard that he was charged with being drunk and jerked his head up and down on the first part of the question "Guilty or not guilty...
...This is a trial, your honor," the bailiff said as the next case came up. Judge Stone lifted himself from his small chair and moved to the large one at the center of the Bench. A young blonde court secretary went into the back room and brought out the 30 year old female defendant. A policeman said he had gone out on a complaint from a taxi driver who was having trouble with his fare. When the policeman arrived he found this lady "so drunk that she was staggering all over...
...Nolo," the bailiff relayed to the Judge, but it looked as if the Judge's hearing aid receiver was again behind his coat. The next five people all pleaded guilty but quickly had their minds changed. About three cases per minute now passed through the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex...
...Lowest Dungeon. When the prayer was done, Tom gathered two witnesses, took them over to notify the bailiff, then bicycled along to file due notice of clameur with the greffe (clerk of court) and affix two five-shilling stamps. "Nothing more will be done," he told his family confidently that night at dinner, "until the case is decided in court...