Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weathermen entered the courtroom yesterday with clenched fists. Several young spectators returned the salute before Viola told all to stop...
...little judge had certainly been provoked. For days Seale's courtroom conduct had ranged from the embarrassing to the outrageous. Hoffman acted, he said, "to ensure that this trial will continue in an atmosphere of dignity." But in handing down what may be the longest contempt sentence in U.S. history, the judge startled lawyers across the country. Many law professors believe that Hoffman not only overreacted but also created constitutional problems that he could have avoided. Sanford Kadish of the University of California at Berkeley termed the sentences "savage, barbarous and vindictive." Stanford's Anthony Amsterdam called them...
Despite Hoffman's disapproval, Seale claims that there was good reason for his courtroom outbursts; the judge, he said, had denied him proper representation at the conspiracy trial. Two weeks before the trial, Seale asked for a delay because his own lawyer, Charles Garry of San Francisco, was about to have gall-bladder surgery. The judge denied the delay on the ground that the defendants had enough other lawyers to represent them. Indeed, in Garry's absence, William Kunstler filed a notice of appearance that enabled him to act as counsel for Seale. Garry says that he advised...
Mann, Olson, and Nies were arrested on the felony charge on October 24 and released without bond on October 29. Reeves was arrested on the same charge, without a warrant, yesterday morning inside the courtroom. Taylor refused to hear Homans' petition for a writ of habeas corpus on Reeves...
...other cities, more basic seminars in trial advocacy are held. This is a program designed to equip lawyers with basic courtroom skills. Schwartz explained. "We're trying to help lawyers solve today's problems with tomorrow's techniques." Many of the nation's law schools conduct similar seminars as part of the ATLA program...