Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they will take it in stride. Television news knows its power. It has come a long way since the days when pencil journalists demonstrated their contempt for their upstart rival by carrying clackers to news events to foul up sound tapes and by unplugging the cables of the TV equipment...
...grisly crime, angry citizens, pressured police-such are the ingredients that spur , "trial by newspaper," the prejudicial reporting that often all but guarantees a despised defendant's conviction. British courts have long curbed the problem by holding errant newspapers in contempt. The U.S. Supreme Court, on the other hand, must consider the First Amendment right of a free press; it has repeatedly voided convictions for contempt by publication. And in the process it has left unresolved the competing interests of the press and the defendant on trial...
...Cool on Contempt. Police, prosecutors and other members of the legal branch who violated the rules would be subject to contempt proceedings before whatever court was handling the case. While a jury trial is in progress, urged the committee, the court should also hold in contempt any person who makes an out-of-court public statement that is "reasonably calculated to affect the outcome of the trial and seriously threatens to have such an effect...
Beyond such guidelines, the committee is flatly against "expanded use of the contempt power against the news media or the enactment of statutory restrictions." For one thing, news media have recently shown "impressive" restraint. For another, the Sheppard decision clearly suggests that trial judges can and should combat inflammatory reporting by many other devices-holding pretrial hearings in private, granting continuances and changes of venue, selecting jurors from distant localities, sequestering jurors to make sure that they do not read the newspapers and readily ordering mistrials when they...
...been so acclaimed. The 13th of 14 children of a wealthy Afrikaner farmer, he studied law at Stellenbosch University, turned up in 1941 as a 25-year-old "general" in South Africa's pro-Nazi underground, the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Guard). Spouting his admiration for Hitler and contempt for democracy, he was arrested as a Nazi agent in 1942, spent 14 months in a dusty internment camp at Koffiefontein in the Orange Free State. So extremist were his ideas that not even the Nationalists could stomach them at first. In 1948, the party turned down his application...