Word: clerking
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...flat voice of the court clerk filled the hushed courtroom of Chicago's venerable Criminal Court House. "We, the jury, find the defendant John Gacy guilty of the murder of . . ."-and then she would add a name. Twenty-two times she repeated that litany and then, because the other victims still had not been identified, she began adding numbers-eleven in all. Frowning slightly, the chunky, moon-faced defendant sat slumped in his chair. Moments earlier, walking into the courtroom, he had turned to his two gloomy attorneys. "Cheer up, boys," he joked, "and keep a straight face...
...inflation and the Administration's inability to deal with it have caused widespread dismay. "It has been six or eight months since I've taken my wife to a restaurant," grumbles John Conroy, an accountant in Canton, Mass. David Traver, a student and part-time department-store clerk in Atlanta, cannot replace a car that blew its engine and could not be repaired. Says he: "When I was 19, I could afford to buy a new car. Now I'm 26 and I can't afford to buy a used car." He rides...
...Dennis Parnell and even began calling his kidnaper "Dad." They ended up in the cabin without water or electricity on an isolated ranch near Manchester. Stayner attended local schools sporadically but led a solitary life. He later told the police: "It was boring." Parnell worked as a night clerk at the Palace Hotel in Ukiah. "He was a quiet man who seemed a little lonely," says Carol Lee, a coworker. "Kids-that's what we talked about...
...wrote the opinion, would be "personally offended" if he dissented and thus might not support him in other cases. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis decided to probe this account of cynical legal horse-trading, which the book suggested was based on the recollection of an unnamed former Brennan clerk. Lewis found the ex-clerk, Paul R. Hoeber, now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Hoeber denied that he told Woodward and Armstrong anything of the sort; he insists that Brennan voted with Blackmun only because he felt that the facts of the case required...
...experts' major complaint is that the authors dwell on personalities while slighting substance. Though the portraits of the Justices generally ring true, the authors occasionally indulge in some low blows. At one point, the book suggests that Burger, who clearly is the clerks' least favorite Justice, cares little for the disadvantaged because he instructs his own clerks to spend less time working on the often scrawled, and rarely persuasive, petitions for hearings submitted by poor people. What the authors do not say is that Burger had this work, once done only by the Chief Justice's aides...