Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to avoid what he fears would be a circus-style inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a sort of rehearsal for an inquest was held last week in Pennsylvania's Luzerne County courthouse. Nearly 200 newsmen and spectators jammed into Judge Bernard Brominski's courtroom in Wilkes-Barre to hear arguments on whether Mary Jo's body should be exhumed from a nearby Larksville cemetery for an autopsy. While the proceeding showed that Kennedy's apprehension was well founded, it also indicated that the lack of a postmortem has contributed to keeping...
Hoffman also described how he once wore the American flag to a hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and mocked Judge "Julius the Just" and his "Geritol Courtroom...
...delayed for years by a lawyer committed to saving the environment." Adds E.D.F.'s Victor Yannacone: "Every piece of enlightened social legislation that has come down in the past 50 or 60 years has been preceded by a history of litigation. It is the highest use of the courtroom-even when we lose-to focus public attention and disseminate information about intolerable conditions...
...been provoked. Last week, for example, the defendants draped a large Viet Cong flag over the counsel table after Hoffman denied them a day off to participate in the nationwide peace demonstrations. Foran denounced Attorney William Kunstler for supporting the defendants' efforts to bring the Moratorium into the courtroom. After an angry exchange, Foran growled: "I have contempt for Mr. Kunstler." The judge rebuked only Kunstler. As the dominant figure in the courtroom, a judge can easily influence the jury if his likes and dislikes are too obvious. If convicted, the Chicago Eight are likely to argue on appeal...
Fundamentalism was on the defensive in the Roaring Twenties, and William Jennings Bryan, its principal spokesman, found himself under siege by the giants of the emerging Liberalism. He was attacked not only in the press by Henry Mencken and in the courtroom by Clarence Darrow, but even from the pulpit by a bright-eyed Baptist who had the temerity to question the virgin birth and the second coming of Christ...