Word: contempts
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Hoffman cleared the courtroom of spectators before the jury announced its verdict. He said he wanted to avoid disruptions like the one which occurred last Saturday while Hoffman handed out contempt of court sentences...
Hoffman prides himself on the fact that he has had 23 guilty verdicts out of 24 in his courtroom recently. On the 24th case, the jury was deadlocked and Hoffman jailed one of the jurors for contempt. (He allegedly read a news clipping on the trial...
...Hayden, one of the defendants, said early in October, "Old Julius is not stupid. He is shrewd and he knows he's got us either way. If we object to this trial, he can jail us for contempt for three years and appealing the verdict won't help...
...prosecution and defense. Unlike warrants, their justification need not be demonstrated in advance before a judge, but their validity may be challenged after they are issued, on the grounds that they are oppressive, burdensome or irrelevant. Anyone failing to comply with a valid subpoena order is subject to a contempt citation and, often, jailing...
...stockholders of the copper-rich Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, the U.S. pressures the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold (George Voskovec), to accede to the murder of the Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba (Louis Gossett). At the very least, this proposition proves that a sovereign contempt for the playgoers' intelligence is not confined to Broadway...