Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barcelona last week opened a political trial so engrossing that even a major air raid, even, the shattering concussion of bombs which exploded a few hundred yards from the courtroom did not distract the judges, prisoners or spectators. In an atmosphere electric with hate and Spanish passion, Andrés Nin was at last put on trial in absentia. Andrés Nin's small, blonde Russian wife or widow had a ringside spectator's seat...
...Manhattan last week a great courtroom drama reached a sudden denouement. Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey having shown to his own satisfaction that Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines was the political fixer for Harlem's numbers racket, had rested the State's case. The defense had begun to put its witnesses upon the stand. One of them, young Lawyer Lyon Boston, onetime assistant to Tammany's District Attorney William C. Dodge, testified that Tammanyite Dodge had deputed him to investigate Tammanyite Hines's long-rumored connection with the numbers racket, that he had found no evidence against Hines...
...courtroom shivered. Witness Boston's jaw dropped. So did Prosecutor Dewey's. He and Attorney Stryker strode to the bench where sat stern-faced Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Attorney Stryker argued that the prosecutor's remark had nothing to do with the trial at hand, was deliberately prejudicial to his client. Prosecutor Dewey insisted that the question was proper and justified. Justice Pecora, with face sterner than ever, recessed court for the week-end to decide...
...days Justice Pecora pondered, then convened his court, announced he would hand down his decision. With the courtroom locked, he read in a firm, dry voice a flat and lawyerlike end to one of the most sensational cases in New York jurisprudence. Because Defendant Hines was charged only with conspiracy to "contrive a lottery," said he, the question about the poultry racket was improper and prejudicial, the request for a mistrial was granted...
...most momentous test case in the history of the English law covering abortion packed London's grimy Old Bailey courtroom last week with skilled physicians from Harley and Wimpole Streets, earnest young medical students, smart socialites. Defendant in the case, charged with performing an abortion on a 14-year-old girl who was seven weeks with child, was a lean, greying, studious man, Dr. Aleck William Bourne, 52, top-flight gynecologist and obstetrician...