Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some Americans have been acting," said Tobin, "you'd think this country dropped the Bill of Rights along the way some place . . . Unless a man is to be given a fair trial in a courtroom, unless his accusers are prepared to supply concrete evidence against him, he ought not to be made the butt of irresponsible slander, particularly from the privileged sanctuary of the Senate of the U.S. . . . If a [man] makes slanderous charges against his countrymen, he ought to be made either to prove them or bear the consequences...
Above the judges' heads on the wall of the Amman courtroom hung a black-draped picture of Jordan's late King Abdullah, his eyes fixed sternly on the proceedings. On trial: ten alleged accomplices of the little tailor's apprentice, a terrorist disciple of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who fired five bullets into Abdullah at Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock (TIME, July...
...attempt to assassinate President Truman. In all, 33 persons were killed before the rising was put down. "The law will fall on whoever is responsible for this tragedy," promised Puerto Rican Governor Muñoz Marín. That meant Albizu Campos. Last week, in a half-empty courtroom, Albizu was convicted on twelve charges of trying to overthrow the Puerto Rican government by force. Maximum penalty on each charge: ten years in prison...
...Kansas City was the way he could make an unlikely damage suit pay off like a cash register. At 43, he was a pink-cheeked, garrulous lawyer, with a weakness for pinstripe suits, who knew all the angles for getting publicity for himself and his clients. In the courtroom, in steady command of a soft, barefoot Arkansas drawl, he had a wonderful way with juries...
...Confession. When he appeared at the trial last week, there were no Western newsmen in Prague, and only two U.S. embassy officials were admitted to the courtroom. Oatis met his defense lawyer for the first time when the trial magistrate pointed to a stranger standing near by and told Oatis, "This is Dr. Bartos." Then, like a ventriloquist's dummy, Oatis went through all the stiff motions of "confessing" to espionage. As in other propaganda trials, the low, hesitant words were broadcast. Oatis admitted taking orders from New York and London A.P. officials to find out what happened...