Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Police Department is out to get Danny Escobedo," charged Lawyer Marshall Schwarzbach in a Chicago courtroom last week. The police, he said, have made Danny (TIME cover, April 29) their "most hated person" because they resent the 1964 Supreme Court decision that voided his murder admission (Escobedo v. Illinois) and set the stage for last June's decision to apply the rights of silence and counsel to all police interrogation (Miranda v. Arizona...
Nowhere in his book, in fact, does Sheppard disclose - as he did recently on TV - that he had carried a concealed revolver into the courtroom when the jury's verdict was ready last Nov. 16; he had planned to draw it if he was again found guilty, so that guards would shoot and kill him. Instead of the deep bitterness that he might be expected to feel, Sheppard most often seems to be expressing a carping irritability; instead of suggesting that he ever despaired, he consistently paints himself as a stoic - and a man who would never consider killing...
...contrast, Coppolino turned out to be a first-rate courtroom performer. In two hours on the stand, he bolstered his case with cool, quiet testimony that Keuper could not shake. Coppolino admitted his affair with Mrs. Farber, but insisted that he was a conscientious physician to Farber on the day he died-giving him proper treatment for a sudden heart ailment, pleading in vain that he go to a hospital. Neatly dressed in a dark suit, as professional in his manner as a medical-school lecturer, Coppolino even turned to the jury to give an onomatopoetic description of how irregular...
Kinoy was dragged by guards from the courtroom during an HUAC meeting last summer for "loud and boisterous interruptions." He and a number of other ACLU lawyers had obtained a temporary injunction against the hearing, but it was dissolved by a higher court...
...trials of Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch there were eminent writers who were willing to spend their time defending the freedom of expression, but with less famous books, it is unlikely that the book's defenders would be able to entice writer-witnesses into the courtroom...