Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While spectators packing the courtroom cheered in approval, pale Carol Paight sobbed with relief. "I'm so happy, I'm so happy," she said...
After Skardon and other witnesses had given testimony, Chief Magistrate Sir Lawrence Dunne remanded Fuchs to stand trial for treason at the Feb. 28 Old Bailey criminal sessions. The hearing at Bow Street had taken just two hours. The proceedings over, Fuchs walked out of the courtroom, back to his cell, looking like a harmless, nondescript scientist whom one might see in any laboratory. Despite his harmless look, despite repentance of a sort, Dr. Klaus Fuchs still bore Communism's indelible brand-NASH...
...quiet Manhattan courtroom, Hiss was sentenced to five years in prison. Hiss scarcely had time to post $10,000 bail and file an appeal before Secretary of State Dean Acheson set off the storm. At a crowded press conference in Washington, Acheson went to the defense of the former top State Department official whom a federal jury had convicted of perjury and thus found, guilty of stealing State documents to be sent to Russia...
...cast tries hard for plausibility and Director Robert (The Killers') Siodmak builds tension in some of the courtroom scenes, e.g., when the morbidly curious camera paces Barbara from a cell in the county jail, across a crowded street and up three flights of courthouse stairs to hear the jury's verdict. But taut detail is not enough to prop up the essential fudge-and-marshmallow of character and concept...
...king of Los Angeles." To drive the point home, Managing Editor Campbell himself wrote a blistering editorial, "Black Robes Should Not Cover Proceedings in Los Angeles Courts." Next day, for good measure, Aggie Underwood and all the other city editors sent swarms of photographers to Judge Nourse's courtroom to snap more pictures-any pictures...