Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even though the city council finally called for "peace and tranquillity," any realistic hopes for continued order plainly rested with state and federal officials. Judge Clayton, suspending school for a day while Grenada officials attended a hearing in his courtroom, at week's end replaced the restraining order against Grenada officials with a permanent injunction; he also sentenced Constable Carroll to four months in prison for resisting the service of a federal subpoena last July. Governor Johnson, a moderate by Mississippi standards, charged that Grenada's latest violence was an effort to embarrass him politically, and promised that...
...eerie screech of water birds sounded through the open-ended courtroom in Mwanza, a dusty little Tanzanian town on the shore of Lake Victoria. Solemn in his red robes and white wig, British-born Judge Harold Platt, a member of Tanzania's High Court, stepped up to the bench. Ededem Effiwatt, the ponderous, coal-black prosecutor, made ready to represent the state. And an unarmed African policeman stood guard by the prisoner in the dock. Everywhere he looked, Peace Corpsman Bill Haywood Kinsey, 24, a North Carolinian who had been charged with the murder of his wife, was reminded...
From Britain, the Royal Shakespeare Company is bringing Harold Pinter's success, The Homecoming, and Peter Weiss's The Investigation, a courtroom documentary about Nazi war crimes. Dinner at Eight, the 1932 collaboration of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, will be served once again, this time with so many stars (Robert Burr, Ruth Ford, Arlene Francis, June Havoc, Walter Pidgeon, among others) that the cast is to be billed alphabetically and refereed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie. (Explaining his first Broadway directing job since he left for the Minnesota Theater Company in 1960, Guthrie says...
Daniel: It's a gibe at the style of newspaper articles . . . You keep forgetting that the starting point for all this is an imaginary situation, not something that actually happened. [Laughter in courtroom...
...absurdly scheduled to appear in several different courts at once, or put forward any old excuse as they jockey for assignment to a judge they like better. In Los Angeles, no trial is scheduled until both sides' lawyers agree that they are prepared to be present in the courtroom. At that point, the lawyers sign a "certificate of readiness" and a later memorandum fully describing the case, asserting that all pretrial motions have been made, swearing that no settlement is in sight, and estimating precisely how long the trial will take...