Search Details

Word: courtroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Inside the Post Office, in an austerely decorated twelfth-story courtroom, the adversaries in the case gathered last week for the first encounter in what may be a long legal duel. The five defendants--Spock, Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, Harvard graduate student Michael K. Ferber, writer Mitchell Goodman, and former National Security Council staffer Marcus Raskin--were all there, each with one or more attorneys. So were Judge Francis J.W. Ford, who will hear the case, and assistant U.S. attorney John Wall, who will argue the government's side, at least at first. In addition, there was the usual...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Spock in Court | 4/23/1968 | See Source »

Then, with the defendants and their battery of lawyers, relatives, and associates arrayed in a double semicircle around the courtroom, Ford listened to three hours of argument that the Jan. 5 indictment should be thrown...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Pre-Trial Hearings Open for 'Bo ston Five' | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

Although 1,000 demonstrators accompanied the five men to Post Office building on Jan. 29 for their arraignment, only a few television cameramen greeted them yesterday. The only remarkable event outside the courtroom resulted when a giant crane overturned on Congress St. during the hearing. Spock strolled over during the lunch recess to inspect the wreckage...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Pre-Trial Hearings Open for 'Bo ston Five' | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

...occupied Room 5 with a clear view of King's motel across the way, he dropped his rifle and a blue overnight bag containing some clothes. All of these items and imprints gave the FBI and Memphis police a microscopic field day whose yield should provide invaluable courtroom evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man in Room 5 | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Having noted that much testimony could sensibly be taken over the telephone, California Judge Leon Emerson during the past year has been using a unique new courtroom tool: a speakerphone. The instrument is sensitive enough to pick up the courtroom questions of defense and prosecuting attorneys. The witness is sworn over the loudspeaker telephone, and his voice is amplified so that everyone can hear what he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Hello, Justice Calling | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

Previous | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | Next