Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Room for Morality. Gideon Hausner was prosecutor for Israel in the Eichmann trial of 1961. In this powerful panorama of the courtroom scene, he prosecutes Eichmann still. The enormous Israeli effort that went into the preparation of the case against him, the painstaking attention to legal detail and justification, the wrenching attempt to be fair while partisan in judging and convicting the man-all of it is replayed in Hausner's tautly written pages. He admits his purpose plainly: neither the Jews nor the rest of the world should rest easily as long as the Nazi impulse still festers...
...courthouse and even freely handled trial exhibits. Most important, said Clark, Blythin "might well have proscribed extrajudicial statements by any lawyer, party, witness or court official"-thus cutting off prejudicial publicity at its main source and forcing newsmen to report the trial only "as it unfolded in the courtroom...
...This," said Prosecutor Leroy New, "has been the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana." There could be little disagreement from the crowds who had jammed the Indianapolis courtroom for five weeks. What attracted-and repelled-the spectators was the trial of Mrs. Gertrude Baniszewski, 37, two of her children, Paula, 18, and John, 13, and two neighbor youths, Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs, both 15. All were charged with the protracted death by torture of pretty Sylvia Marie Likens, 16, who with her younger sister Jenny had boarded in the Baniszewski home...
...case has since become a legal cause célèbre across the country. For one thing, it raises a problem in academic freedom: Can a law professor be disbarred for what he preaches in a private classroom as opposed to what he practices in a public courtroom? To Freedman's academic superiors, the answer is clear. Freedman, 38, has just been promoted to full professor and given a raise. Meanwhile, the grievance committee has exonerated him by a vote of 8 to 1. That does not mean that Freedman is out of trouble. The committee report...
...fades to the color of driftwood, and ultimately she lands in Mexico wearing a filthy flowered wrapper and carousing with Burgess Meredith, a blackmailer. After she shoots him for threatening to reveal her identity and spoil the Governor's bid for the White House, she plays her big courtroom scene, helped along by her son (Keir Dullea), now a clear-eyed young defense attorney. He never really knows the truth but senses, somehow, that his client was once a very snappy number. Contemporary observers attending the trials of Madame X will merely note that the poor girl...