Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Goodwin, even the judge is a lawbreaker. Hence his natural antipathy towards the peaceful students, often present in the courtroom in numbers which remind us greatly of a History 1 lecture. Cases have been known, when students showing their innocence of one charge, have been fined on the strength of a dear old statute saying that cars cannot be parked in any part of Cambridge for over an hour. And yet a vicious thug, on July 8, 1924, was convicted of house breaking, and of larceny, but his case was filed...
Maitre Henri Robert asked the jury to acquit "the young stranger here and to give an answer without leaving this courtroom and this child...
...finding that their wrongs had become intolerable, held a mass meeting, indulged in declamations, shouts,'until interrupted by the police. Five leaders were led off, protesting, to the city jail of Nashville, there lodged. Next day, on charges of inciting to riot, they were tried in a courtroom crowded with black and white faces, sentenced to a suspended fine...
...present-day practice in reporting sensational law suits in the public press is typified by the publication of photographs of courtroom scenes. The attendant stories stress in like fashion those features which excite popular attention. This sating of the public appetite for the unusual not only brings the undesirable results incident to all scandal, but is peculiarly harmful in its effect upon the administration of justice. Thus we find the presentation of a trial in the light of a theatrical performance rather than a dispassionate inquiry into the merits of the case. This is bound to lessen respect...
Guest of honor at a luncheon given in Manhattan by the students of the Fordham Law School was Max D. Steuer, famed "courtroom" lawyer. While the rapt students flicked ashes into their demi-tasse saucers, Mr. Steuer told them how to talk to a jury. Said...