Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus last week in a courtroom in Chester, 16 miles south of Liverpool, ended the 14-day trial of the lean stock clerk and his blonde girl friend. They had been charged with killing 17-year-old Edward Evans and two children whose bodies they buried in shallow graves on the moors near Manchester. For the prosecution, Britain's Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones called 40 witnesses to the stand. The killings were all marked by what Sir Elwyn called "a perverted sexual element." The defendants, he charged, took special care to preserve mementos of the crimes...
Seated on folding chairs in a packed Indianapolis courtroom last week was the largest array of defendants to stand trial for a single murder in Indiana his tory. It was also one of the most bizarre: a wispy-haired 90-lb. woman, three of her children and two teen-age neighbor boys. As outlined by police, their story seemed almost unbelievably ugly...
...more than a month, Canada's celebrated "Munsinger Affair" (TIME, March 25) had been the talk of the country. Last week it moved into the courtroom, as public hearings opened under Supreme Court Justice Wishart Flett Spence, 62. They would try to determine whether there had been a national security leak in the friendship of 36-year-old German Party Girl Gerda Munsinger with ministers of the former Conservative government. So far, the evidence was about as scant as the party-girl costumes Gerda had donned for cheesecake photos in Munich...
...voluntariness of his confession. The issue becomes a "swearing contest" between the scruffy confessor and three or four detectives who swear they never coerced him. Understandably, most judges and juries prefer to believe policemen; indeed, judges overlook trickery in the squeal room that would shock them in the courtroom...
...inexorably toward a solution in Gideon v. Wainwright, which discarded "totality" as the test of whether indigents were entitled to free counsel in state criminal trials. By imposing on the states the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, Gideon set an objective standard: all indigents get free counsel in the courtroom...