Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Showdown. Lana still had one more performance to give. At the Los Angeles Hall of Records, onlookers crowded the corridors to get a glimpse of the drama, ohed and ahed as the principals threaded into the courtroom. Cheryl, detained in juvenile prison, testified by deposition that the last fight between Johnny and her mother arose after Lana learned that Johnny had lied about his age: he was really 32, not 42, as he had said...
...Lana's desperation rang true, but even a Hollywood scenario might have missed the final touch that came when a man in the courtroom stood and shouted: "This whole thing's a pack of lies. Johnny Stompanato was my friend! The daughter was in love with him and he was killed because of jealousy between mother and daughter!" Then, as an afterthought before he wheeled and stomped out of the room, the man cried: "Johnny Stompanato was a gentleman...
...stood before a judge in the courtroom of Offenburg (pop. 28,000) last week, the very look of Ludwig Pankraz Zind, 51, betrayed his past. His slim body was ramrod-erect, a prim, Hitler-like mustache decorated his face. On his left cheek were the proud, ugly scars of old duels. After his Heidelberg student days, Zind had become a Nazi Storm Trooper, then a reserve captain in the Wehrmacht on the Russian front. Back in Offenburg after the war, he was first barred from his old teaching post by the Allies, but in 1948 he got his job back...
...start of a heavily publicized murder trial in February, Judge James T. English, 64, warned photographers that they could take courtroom shots only during recesses and could not shoot the defendant even then. But as it turned out, Judge English did not object when the Omaha World-Herald quietly photographed Defendant George D. Jones in the courtroom during recesses, or when TV cameras caught him from the corridor while the trial was actually in session. Nor did Judge English complain when TV and World-Herald cameramen whirled and clicked while the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder...
Judge English had committed contempt of court by violating Canon 35 of the Canons of Judicial Ethics (adopted by the court in 1951), which forbids courtroom photography as detracting from a trial's "dignity and decorum...