Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Costs of Court. In Milwaukee, Mrs. John Elliott, haled into court for nonpayment of rent, tearfully told about her five children whom her husband had deserted, received donations of $73 from courtroom onlookers, $10 from the judge, $5 from Complainant Vincent McHugh...
With a decision in favor of the respondent, three distinguished federal judges last night brought this year's Ames Competition to a close in Langdell Courtroom at the Law School. Winners of the three year long competition were Charles W. Davis 3L, and James D. St. Clair 3L, giving the oral argument, and Thomas P. Ford 3L, and Lambert Turner Jr. 3L, who prepared the briefs...
Over 100 people gathered in the Langdell Courtroom for the event which was carried on with much solemnity and traditional ceremony. An attendant bearing an ancient mace preceded the judges into the room and on their entrance everyone present arose until the judges were seated...
Last week, after nearby Greenwood's enterprising Morning Star had broken the story of Mississippi's latest lynching, prosecutors in Holmes County (80% Negro) moved with commendable speed. Before a jampacked courtroom, District Attorney Harold Dyer Jr. accused Jeff Dodd, his son and three others of Leon McAtee's murder. Said he: "The citizen of Holmes County holds a white man accountable if he commits a crime, the same as he holds a Negro accountable...
...neat, somberly clad man who had opened the world's case against the Nazi war criminals was still pale and nervous as he prepared to close it last week. U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson knew that not merely the courtroom's obedient microphones but also the ears of history were listening to his words. Jackson tried to show that the trial's 'mad and melancholy" mass of evidence, which the U.S. prosecution had helped compile with masterly precision, was not, as the defense had claimed, merely a disconnected series of misfortunes. Said Jackson: "Each part...