Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he had buried one of the three dead G.I.s beside the Yalu River, and he swore: "I made a promise to that kid . . . that if God permitted me to get back home alive . . . the man who murdered him would be brought to justice." The witness pointed across the courtroom to the trim and carefully uniformed Sergeant Gallagher: "That...
...prominent and popular figure in the state government at Austin. Texas' land commissioner for 16 years, he was re-elected for the eighth time last year, but disqualified himself and astonished his friends when he refused to take the oath of office. Last week in a courtroom in Austin, Bascom Giles was convicted as an accomplice to the theft of $6,800 and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary...
Died. Lloyd Paul Stryker, 70, nationally known criminal lawyer and master of old-style courtroom oratory, counsel for Alger Hiss in his first perjury trial (which ended in a hung jury); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Should newspaper photographers be allowed to take pictures in courtrooms? Eighteen years ago the American Bar Association answered with a firm no. adopted Canon 35, banning cameras from courts. Fourteen states followed suit by officially making Canon 35 a part of their law; it was approved by the bar associations of close to a dozen other states. Frequent court decisions have upheld a judge's right to bar photographers from his court. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused even to hear an appeal from the Cleveland Press, whose photographers had been held in contempt for taking courtroom pictures...
When Cleveland Press staffers took a courtroom picture of a deposed local judge on trial for embezzlement, the judge hearing the case objected. But the Press went ahead anyway, was held in contempt of court (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) and fined $700 plus a token jail term for the city editor-one hour in the sheriff's custody. The Press's Editor Louis Seltzer announced that he would appeal the verdict to the highest courts...