Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paneled courtroom in Manhattan's Federal Court House last week, Judge Harold R. Medina peered down from his bench at an array of more than 30 lawyers. Pleasantly, he advised them: "Just lead me along like a child and explain to me how it works...
...Senatore, at 20, product of the teeming tenements and slums, is what people mean by the phrase "juvenile delinquent." In a quiet Brooklyn courtroom last week, Joe tried to tell why he and his buddies talked tough, acted tough and got tough inside. Judge Samuel Leibowitz had asked Joe, leader of a South Brooklyn gang, if he had anything to say before sentence was passed on a buddy, Anthony
...judge," Joe said, "you're just going to make him bitter. Just as bitter as I am. I was in jail. I know what they did to me there." There was a murmur in the packed courtroom. Joe looked defiant. "Sure I was in jail," he said. "I'm on the right side now, but-" he turned to face the jury, "I still have no respect for the law. How can I? Not when I see the cops cutting in on our crap games and card games. How do you expect us to have respect...
Unrehearsed. Joe paused. The courtroom was quiet. After a while, he went on: "Look, Your Honor, it's not us kids. It's the neighborhood. We ain't got no place to go. Do you want us to stay home seven nights a week? Look, we go into a poolroom or something, and the cops break in on us . . . We got no place...
From the minute he entered a crowded courtroom in Los Angeles' federal building, Mickey was the star of the show. Wearing a natty brown suit, brown tie and deep black scowl, he faced a whole battery of newsmen, photographers, movie cameras and tape recorders. Said Mickey proudly: "I could spit on the sidewalk and it would make headlines." For five hours, without notes and without much help from his two lawyers, he answered questions put by committee lawyers and three Senators. Whenever they put him on the spot, Mickey would hoist his bushy eyebrows, look injured and answer...