Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great was Morgan's mastery of courtroom procedure that in 1912, when he left a private practice in Duinth, Minnesota, a prominent state supreme court justice said "Ed Morgan is a fine man, but we are not sorry to see him leave. Now perhaps we can try a case on the merits rather than on procedure...
When the verdict had been read, the 67-year-old former field marshal stepped over to his carabinieri guard. "Andiamo, andiamo [Let's go, let's go]," he snapped. Then, without raising his eyes, Rodolfo Graziani drew on his gloves and walked with faltering dignity from the courtroom...
...county courtroom, Lindsey and three helpers exhorted farmers, ranchers and courthouse loafers. "You think it's silly tryin' to call up the varmint that has the reputation through the ages of bein' the slyest. We four have been the direct cause of about 600 bitin' the dust." He explained carefully how two men with miners' cap lights were to stand back-to-back waiting to spot the fox's red eyes. Behind the jury box, some hound-dog men snickered...
...could not save Harry Bridges' neck this time. In the gloomy cavernous courtroom where he had lounged, smiled and listened studiously through 81 days of trial a jury of eight men and four women -after 31 hours of deliberation-decided that Bridges had been a Communist and had lied when he denied it at his naturalization proceedings in 1945. For abetting the deception by serving as Bridges' naturalization witnesses, two top lieutenants in the I.L.W.U.-Vice President J. R. Robertson and German-born Henry ("The Dutchman") Schmidt-were also convicted. This week Bridges was sentenced to five years...
Justice Hugo L. Black of the United States Supreme Court will preside over the final argument of the Ames Competition today in a closed session in Langdell Hall Courtroom...