Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Went on record that "the taking of photographs in the courtroom during sessions or recesses . . . degrades the court and . . . should not be permitted...
...Flemington, Sheriff John H. Curtiss packed newsmen into the stuffy courtroom like cordwood, accepting "donations" of $5 and $10 for seats...
...Flemington, officials of high and low degree paid off social and political obligations by obtaining courtroom passes for the curious...
Recommendation: "That the use of cameras in the courtroom should be only with the knowledge and approval of the trial judge and the consent of counsel for the accused in criminal cases and of counsel for both parties in civil cases...
...judge ever won wider approval for conducting a trial with dignity and fairness than solemn, paternal Judge Trenchard. The A. B. A. committee report does not imply otherwise, is more concerned with the antics which go on outside the courtroom and beyond the judge's normal jurisdiction. To keep trials decent outside as well as inside, the report concludes: "This committee is clear that if local bar associations would resolutely enforce the obvious and known requirements of the code of professional ethics upon the lawyers who are subject to the disciplinary actions of the Bar, a very substantial part...