Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range question to solve. When the paddy wagons deposited their twenty-eight occupants at Central Square headquarters, the men under arrest were greeted by a University official who was busily doling out funds from the Deans Office bail-posting fund. Yet the next day, when they gathered in the courtroom, most of them faced for the first time with something more serious than a parking ticket, the University official was nowhere in sight. It seemed that the people who were in charge of University Hall were wavering between outright intervention and the traditional hands-off policy...
Before a packed and noisy courtroom, 28 students pleaded not guilty Friday morning to charges stemming from Thursday's Square riot. A trial for 26 of them was set for this Friday, while the two others, who were found guilty, appealed a one-day sentence in the House of Correction...
...courts. Next morning in Judge Pine's court, when the injunction papers were signed, Assistant Attorney General Holmes Baldridge asked for a stay of the injunc tion. "I deny it," said Pine. "Now you are free to seek relief elsewhere." Baldridge, grim and frustrated, stomped out of the courtroom. But that afternoon he showed up again in the grey-walled Circuit Court of Appeals (right next door to Pine's chamber), flanked this time by Acting Attorney General Philip B. Perlman. All the court's nine judges had as sembled to hear almost three hours of argument...
Dean Fassett had asked the court to continue the case until Tuesday, May 13, and the M.I.T. contingent was about to leave the courtroom when the patrolmen registered their complaints against him. Fassett requested a continuation in order to give Tech authorities time to investigate the affair...
Leni's fans in the Berlin courtroom dabbed at their eyes with handkerchiefs as crumpled and sodden as that which 44-year-old Leni herself had twisted and tormented on the witness stand. "Children, children," she cautioned the photographers crowding around her when the trial was done, "save your film. I've only one wish now-to be let alone...