Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final day of the trial came last week; and the Soviet Government opened the courtroom to the public. There was the Supreme Judge of the Military Tribunal, Ulrich, guarded by three stalwart soldiers. There was Kamenev, Acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, sitting with his beautiful wife. Side by side sat Krassikov, President of the Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap...
...verdict of acquittal, given after five hours of deliberation, was the signal for what the press described as "one of the most remarkable demonstrations ever seen in a New York courtroom." Fallon, who never lost his poise, even during the anxious hours of the jury's deliberation, thanked each juror individually and then was carried by his friends to a waiting automobile. The next day he held what amounted to a reception in a box at the baseball game at the Polo Grounds...
...yourself be misled by the eloquence of this very wily and resourceful attorney, my adversary. Keep close to the facts, and if you do that we have no fear. If this jury should fail to agree to vindicate this lady triumphantly, she would go out of this courtroom a bowed and sorrowful lady. She wants to go home to her children. She wants to take them into her arms and look into their eyes and tell them that she has never disgraced them. She has done nothing in her whole life that hasn't been open to the public gaze...
...Woman on the Jury. When friends are gathered together in the name of courtroom melodrama one is bound to grant certain of the author's requests. One cannot protest that he has met the District Attorney so many times "before that he really would prefer a change; likewise the counsel for the defense; and the Irish detective. But the woman in the jury box is a newcomer, and for her sake it was that this program of events was scheduled...
...midst of the solidly respectable surroundings of an English courtroom the opinion was recently handed down that "ghosts in these days enhance the value of property." It is not recorded that either Sir Arthur Conan Doyle nor Sir Oliver Lodge were involved in the point at issue, but at last the financial status of a ghostship, long ago explained to a doubting world in Frank Stockton's inimitable stories, has achieved the prestige of recognition from the British...