Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first one twelve years ago. For one thing, Cleveland Judge Francis Tally reserved only a few seats for reporters as he went out of his way to prevent any repetition of the "prejudicial publicity" that had moved the Supreme Court to reverse Sheppard's conviction. But even if courtroom decorum was improved, how could Prosecutor John T. Corrigan be prevented from persuading a new jury to reach the same result? The answer had to come from Boston Lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who was barely 21 at the time of Sheppard's first trial, and now, at 33, faced...
Reed told Judge Andrew A. Caffrey that the judge had no moral right to imprison him for refusing to cooperate with the draft laws. Reed then said that he would not leave the courtroom and started to stage a sitdown...
Deputy U.S. Marshals seized Reed and dragged him bodily across the courtroom and into a corridor leading to the U.S. Marshal's office. Later, 20 sympathizers filed out of the courtroom singing "We Shall Overcome," after marshals moved two of Reed's friends from the sitting positions the had taken in front of the courtroom rail...
...bank's end was quick and clean. Despairing of achieving a successful merger, Slay went into a Wayne County circuit courtroom at 6:45 one evening last week. The judge declared Public insolvent, put it in receivership with the Government's Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. FDIC quickly moved to safe guard Public's depositors by selling Public to Commonwealth, and provided the new owner with a $10 million guarantee against any further bad debts owed to Public. Six hours later, at 12:45 a.m., McGuire was informed of the deal by telephone. At 2 a.m., Commonwealth officers...
...court hundreds of decisions are made to drop some cases without prosecution, to accept pleas of guilty in other cases in return for relatively lenient sentences or probation, and to prosecute a few cases to the limit. While we are all warmed by the glow of Perry Mason's courtroom brilliance, it is, in fact, this informal and invisible negotiating and adjusting process -- and even more invisible police decision on whether to arrest in the first place -- that constitutes the great bulk of the administration of justice in this country. There are virtually no rules or guidelines governing the decisions...