Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later last week the "Bitch of Buchenwald," no longer the doll-eyed ruminant, collapsed in a hysterical heap in an Augsburg courtroom, was carried off to a hospital for mental observation. Several doctors said she was suffering from temporary insanity caused by a guilt complex; others said Ilse was faking in an attempt to delay justice. The 43-year-old widow of Karl Koch, commander of the Nazi extermination camp, was on trial for the second time for crimes committed at Buchenwald where 50,000 died. Charges against her: instigating the murder of some 35 German inmates, instigating the attempted...
Last week Ilse's hysterics and absence from the courtroom did not delay her trial. The procession of witnesses went on, was expected to continue at least another four weeks. Since West Germany has abolished the death penalty, the prosecution hopes to put Ilse behind bars for life...
There was something oddly inanimate about jail-pallid, soft-eyed little Chemist Harry Gold, 39, as he walked into a Philadelphia courtroom last week to face sentence as an atomic spy. He had a strained, unhealthy air and he sat almost immobile, with his eyes straight ahead...
...could say "I was wrong" or "I told you so" with equal blandness. In a time when treason and charges of treason were becoming commonplace, Alistair Cooke's report on the Hiss-Chambers case, A Generation on Trial, was a conscientious and uncommonly well written courtroom report, but its title was a misnomer that suggested indulgence toward traitors...
...Jury discover the important point of the case, and you're sure they'll remember it, advised Jerry Geisler, call foreign criminal lawyer to the crowd is Langdell courtroom last night. "Juries hate to be told everything," the lawyer who has defended Errol Flynn and Charlie Chaplin said...