Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advise the lawyers: "Start sawing wood." Deadpan, Judge Medina listened to a tearful outburst on racial discrimination from Counsel George Crockett. The next day when Crockett, a bespectacled Negro, said that he regretted weeping, Medina advised: "It is generally better for counsel to refrain from weeping in the courtroom . . . And I understand you promise not to do it again...
...hundred of them-pimply youths, tough thugs, wild-eyed women-poured into the courthouse lobby and up the stairway and massed outside the courtroom. When Reimann appeared they howled an ovation. "Do your best, Max!" said a pink, pudgy hausfrau: "Just the way it was with Hitler-first he was sentenced to jail, then he became our Führer. I wonder if this won't turn out the same...
...holding Amy's arm, and carrying Amy's baby. One farmer couldn't help saying out loud: "Don't that make you sick?" But it was sort of comical too. The defense made Goldwasser a witness; this enabled them to send him outside the courtroom as soon as the trial started...
...cold rainy day last week, curious Parisians packed a dingy courtroom in the Palais de Justice to hear a red-robed judge pronounce sentence on Mathilde Carre. She was a pert, petite woman with bangs -the very picture of a Parisian gamine. The French thought they understood Mathilde, though they could not forgive...
Last week, in the dingy Palais de Justice courtroom, Mathilde sat with a wry twist on her feline mouth. She was sentenced to die before a firing squad...