Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liked to brag about having an impressive string of 19 victories in homicide cases. So far this year, with the conviction of the Boston Strangler, he has a string of two well advertised losses. Though Bailey vowed to appeal the verdict, a stunned Coppolino was led from the courtroom to prison to start serving his sentence of life. Mumbled he: "I just don't understand...
Last week Eddie Gilbert, still trim at 43, entered a courtroom in New York for sentencing on federal charges arising from his 1962 malefaction. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Armstrong praised Gilbert, who had pleaded guilty to three counts of his indictment, for having "cooperated with the Government and the SEC." His own attorney described him as "thoroughly contrite." While the defendant stood numbly, Judge Edmund L. Palmieri pronounced sentence: a $21,000 fine, two years in prison. Having also pleaded guilty to state larceny charges, Gilbert next faces sentencing in New York State Supreme Court, where he could...
...Deterianation." Gellinoff was patient. But after almost two months of buffoonery, Gellinoff excused the jury from the courtroom. "Now shut up and listen to me," he told Kayo. "You are a faking, lying, scheming, conniving person. I have an open mind as to whether you are guilty, but I want you to know, and I put it in the record, that I think you are sneaky and tricky. I now, on your behalf, move for a mistrial in this case-and deny the motion." Fifteen days later-after a four-hour summation in which Kayo offered to pay jurors...
...classic courtroom line. Yet when Assistant State's Attorney William Martin from Chicago put the question last week in Peoria, 111., the words cast a galvanic spell over the room. In response to the prosecutor's question, Corazon Pieza Amurao, 24, stepped down from the witness stand. The pretty petite (4 ft. 10 in.) Philippine girl, who alone survived the massacre last summer in which eight fellow student nurses were stabbed or strangled to death in a South Side Chicago apartment, walked toward Defendant Richard F. Speck, 25, and raised her hand toward his head. "This," she said...
Last week Judge Tyler again tried to reason with Miller. Miller was sympathetic. "I would not like to put it on your conscience that you would be sending an innocent man to jail," he told the judge. Somewhere behind him in the paneled courtroom Miller's infant daughter began to cry. Tossing back her long blonde hair, Miller's young wife briskly began breast feeding the child. Patiently, Judge Tyler reminded Miller that "no one had trammeled on your right to speak your views." Again, he offered Miller the chance to get another card. Again, Miller refused...