Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in the somber setting of a courtroom, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's spectacular investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was barely distinguishable from a circus sideshow. In a hearing to determine whether retired Businessman Clay Shaw, 54, should be tried on charges of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald and others to murder the late President, "Big Jim" produced only two prosecution witnesses. One was a confessed heroin addict. The other was a young insurance salesman whose impeccable clothing concealed a mind in considerable disarray and whose memory had to be jogged by means...
Garrison's second witness, Junkie Vernon Bundy, said that he had seen Shaw and Oswald talking together in the summer of 1963 near Lake Pontchartrain, where he had gone to give himself a fix. He identified Oswald from photographs, picked Shaw out in the courtroom...
...Selection, rather than election, of judges-with a non-partisan commission of laymen and lawyers screening the choices, and periodically reviewing each judge's performance. >Judicial seminars at which judges are taught proper courtroom techniques, learn uniform sentencing standards, meet prison authorities to discuss correctional programs. >Reexamination of bail rates to reduce discrimination against poor defendants and put a stop to what has become "a standard crime-pricing system...
Each time the judge strode into the court, the dark-haired defendant bowed respectfully in best Canadian courtroom tradition. Viola MacMillan, 63, has had occasion of late to learn about such legal amenities. A shrewd, if unlikely-looking prospector who amassed a fortune in sundry Canadian mining ventures, tiny (5 ft., 100 Ibs.) Viola has been under government investigation ever since a mercurial trading binge on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1964 left investors in her Windfall Oils & Mines Ltd. holding an empty sack. Called "the Queen Bee" by mining men, who elected her president of the Prospectors and Developers...
...Supreme Court held that "what transpires in the courtroom is public property." By 1966, it had banned TV cameras and had deplored news reporting that posed "even the probability of unfairness." The change reflects growing concern over the kind of prejudicial publicity that might sway jurors and influence convictions. Although the court has yet to work out an accommodation between the constitutional rights of free press and fair trial, lawyers are proposing crime-news curbs that leave the U.S. press aghast. The press is now all but accusing the bar of yearning to imitate the British system of jailing errant...