Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pudgy, blustering man who managed and mismanaged millions of Teamster Union dollars during his career as the union's international president was finally hung up last week by $1,900. In a Seattle courtroom a jury of seven men and five women, after deliberating almost nine hours, found Neighbor Dave Beck, 63, guilty of stealing the $1,900 he banked in his own account after the sale of a union-owned Cadillac (maximum sentence: 15 years). Licking his lips as he brushed past newsmen, Millionaire Beck, trapped by his traffic in peanuts, hurried out of court on bond...
Accused of killing Naka Sakai on a hilltop after luring her onto a rifle range with promises of spent brass cartridges (TIME, June 17), Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard entered a Japanese courtroom one day last week to hear the verdict of his celebrated 86-day trial. Girard, intoned Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi, was guilty...
...before an all-white male jury in Circuit Judge Alta L. King's Birmingham courtroom last week: Bart A. Floyd, 31, second Ku Klux Klansman to stand trial for castrating a Negro in a deserted Alabama shack last September. The verdict: guilty of mayhem. The sentence, the same administered a fortnight earlier to one of Floyd's partners in crime: 20 years' imprisonment, the maximum sentence under Alabama law. "The sentence," said the Alabama-born Judge King, "is not nearly commensurate with the crime. You have disrupted the friendly relations between the races. You have drawn...
...crude, vulgar and unbecoming display of a nasty temper." Thus wrote Florida's Supreme Court in 1953, scolding Circuit Judge Stanley Milledge for the way he had bawled out an attorney in his courtroom. In Miami last week, testy, white-haired Judge Milledge, 61, flew into another tantrum and onto Florida front pages in probably the least judicial photograph of a judge yet to reach print...
Touchy after jailing a lawyer for one hour for contempt of court, the judge ran afoul of a TV film cameraman in the corridor from his chambers to the courtroom, shoved the camera aside and bullied the cameraman into surrendering his film. Next, he sent word from the courtroom that he would brook no picture taking in the corridor. When he emerged, photographers from the Miami Herald and station WTVJ began shooting. The judge ordered bailiffs to lock them in his chambers, then telephoned their bosses...