Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rawboned frame out of his chair, opens his coat, loosens his tie, unbuttons his shirt collar, strides up and down before the jury box. At times he laughs, then he sneers, and then he seems to be on the verge of tears; first his voice roars out of the courtroom and echoes through the corridors, then it is a barely audible croon. Before he is through, the sweat is rolling down in rivers on his face and dripping from his chin to the floor. His style has gained him a nickname: "The Terror of Tellico Plains...
...never misses a University of Tennessee football game, wears the same lucky green tie to every one. (Says he: "I'd rather go to a Tennessee game without my pants than without that tie.") Aside from the farm and football, his chief recreation is spinning yarns about his courtroom experiences. Such a man could easily avoid being intense about McCarthy...
...investigation counsel, Jenkins has had to overcome some of his normal techniques. In this case he is supposed to expedite and clarify; sometimes he seems to drop back into the criminal lawyer's bent for diverting and throwing dust. His flowing language is sometimes confusing and his booming courtroom voice hit the microphones so hard that electricians installed a special guard to keep his mouth at least two inches away. At first, while points of order mounted to disorder, he seemed to be waiting for the judge to stop the nonsense, not realizing that he could prompt Chairman Mundt...
Attempt to Muzzle? Greenspun is a man who knows his way around a courtroom. A New York lawyer, Greenspun moved to Nevada in 1946, later became a pressagent for a Las Vegas gambling house. In 1950 he bought the Sun property, including $2,500 in cash assets, with a $1,000 down payment, then took off after Democratic Senator Pat McCarran. Last year Greenspun won an $80,000 out-of-court settlement from some local gambling houses when he sued on charges that McCarran had conspired with them to take their advertising out of the Sun (TIME...
Third on the Attorney General's list of legislation is a bill that would allow courtroom use of evidence secured by wire tapping. Here again any possible advantage is far outweighed by the damaging effects such a measure would have. In the hands of an unscrupulous prosecutor, for example, innocent phone calls could be transformed into admissions of guilt through splicing and editing. There is no need whatsoever for a wire-tap bill, for tapping is now a legalized means of investigation. But under present usage, it is used to learn of future criminal action, not to incriminate on circumstantial...