Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Post Facto. In San Francisco, Judge Harry Neubarth heard the pleas of three shoplifters, let them go, later found they had walked out of the courtroom with the two pairs of nylons he had bought for his wife...
Blossoming Theories. Security became a joke. One man pasted a dog's picture ever his own and went in & out of the courthouse for days. On sentencing day itself a woman reporter moved by all the guards and reached the courtroom, to discover that she had forgotten to take a .38 caliber revolver out of her handbag. She could have leaned over and shot Göring -or the Chief Justice. But Colonel Andrus puttered about, occasionally stealing a dentist's tool from the prison dentist's office, just to see if it would be missed...
...necessary. The number of people who had opportunity to give poison to Göring were legion. There were German doctors, cooks and laundry workers. While working in the prison they were forbidden to go outside, but they had contact with people from outside. Then there was the courtroom itself: during recesses throngs of people milled about the dock and papers were passed back & forth. Not since the day Göring entered Nürnberg prison was he forced to submit to a rectal examination. Other parts of his body (his ears, for instance) went unexamined...
...years the world would remember-perhaps with honor, perhaps with shame -the final scene. The empty dock with its bare wooden benches had looked vast and strange. An almost intimate solemnity, unbroken even by the mundane presence of photographers, had pervaded the packed courtroom. The brittle silence had given way to the firm, clear voice of Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (pronouncing eleven times: ". . . death by hanging") and to the noise of a paneled door, eleven times closing behind a condemned man. The occasion had lifted the eleven men from past bravado and past cowardice alike...
...courtroom, the case of the fatal charmer Neville George Clevely Heath was handled with typical British dispatch. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang, all within three days. Now the British press could set up a-long-suppressed howl...