Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jaffe law club last Thursday defeated the BakerSmith club in this year's finals of the Ames Competition held in the new Austen Hall Courtroom before a capacity crowd...
...last of this year's Ames quarter-finals will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the Austen Courtroom, Griswold and Gordner clubs will debate a movie coachship case...
...full in their own defense. To the prisoners and their many supporters in Germany, Nuremberg was a put-up piece of legal chicanery, fit only to arouse derisive laughter. And such laughter, says Reporter West (who covered part of the trials), was heard frequently and horribly in the Nuremberg courtroom. A ruling against women visitors showing their legs (unfair to "the sex-starved defendants") and another against "disrespectful" catnapping in court somehow combined in such a way that "one of the most venerable of English judges found himself, one hot summer afternoon, being tapped on the shoulder with a white...
...client (Kieron Moore), charged with murder, is blind and deaf, and refuses to defend himself. To Deliot, of course, such problems are merely salt to his solitary porridge. After one of those sketchy investigations that create almost as much mystery as they resolve, he produces, in a clever courtroom scene, the full portrait of the crime, including the face of the killer. Actor Redgrave is the making of the show, though at times he almost fidgets it away. Kieron Moore, Leo Genn and Jane Henderson are excellent. It's a nice little puzzler, in a squirrely sort...
Arthur Vanderbilt eloquently describes the qualities that judges should have: "Judges learned in the law, not merely the law in books but, something far more difficult to acquire, the law as applied in action in the courtroom; judges deeply versed in the mysteries of human nature and adept in the discovery of the truth in the discordant testimony of fallible human beings; judges beholden to no man, independent and honest and-equally important-believed by all men to be independent and honest; judges, above all, fired with consuming zeal to mete out justice according to law to every man, woman...