Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal sense, it was four young, white Florida Tobacco Readers who were on trial last week in a sweltering Tallahassee courtroom. They were charged with abducting a 19-year-old coed at Florida A. & M. University (for Negroes), forcing her at shotgun and knifepoint into a lonely stand of pines and blackjack oaks and between them, raping her seven times. But in a broader and more important sense, the Southern, segregated State of Florida was being tested in its ability to render equal justice under the law. Florida passed the test with dignity and a fine regard...
...steps had left her with a creaky knee and other locomotor impairments, Abbe, 27, hit NBC with a $600,000 suit for her injuries and loss of earnings. Cugie, 59, whose show was not renewed by NBC because Regular Lane then tumbled for other offers, joined Abbe in the courtroom conga line, asked NBC for $100,000 for the loss of Abbe's "services, earnings and society...
...state. To help the state make its case, the FBI laid out the shocking story of what had happened. About 35 men had met at a farm outside Poplarville, but lynch justice was not their immediate aim. Rather, they were looking for ways to prevent a crowning indignity: the courtroom questioning by Parker's Negro attorney on the sexual attack of the 24-year-old white rape victim. Fired by beer, whisky and hot speeches during a two-hour meeting, the plotters eventually hit upon a scheme. By paper ballot, at least ten men were chosen to lynch Parker...
...Courtroom Cry. More than a score of witnesses and court-appointed psychiatrists testified that Amiel showed no traces of mental unbalance, was regarded as a dedicated teacher and a man of serene disposition. The jury apparently took into consideration Amiel's wanly pretty wife, his small daughter, and the fact that his father had just died, grief-stricken at the collapse of Amiel's future, and that his mother was near death. Amiel was sentenced to two years in prison...
From the crowded courtroom came a cry: "Assassin!" Snapped the judge: "Remove that woman at once." A lawyer answered: "It is the mother of Alain Rolland," and no one moved. As Jean Amiel went back to his cell, where he had been reading Milton's Paradise Lost, his wife was escorted out of town by police to protect her from the townspeople. But this was not the end of the affair...