Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial began last week in the town of Chester, 16 miles south of Liverpool, two unusual scenes in the courtroom signaled its high importance. For one, Britain's Attorney General, the country's highest law officer, who normally prosecutes only major espionage cases, was on hand to try a criminal case. For another, a newly erected shield of bullet-resistant glass surrounded the prisoners' dock. Behind the glass sat the defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering...
...four-letter-word fans who filled the Ames Courtroom last night to hear a talk by Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, were not dissappointed. The self-styled "sexual libertine" was armed even with red, white, and blue posters of obscenity...
...burn a photostat of my draft card here?" Krassner asked, looking around the courtroom, explaining that he had already burned photostats in a dozen states and Canada. It was probably as effective as destroying the real thing he suggested, and quipped, "What can the police do--send me a photostat of a subpoena...
Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, will give a talk entitled "An Evening with a Self-Styled Phony, or I Was a Teach-in Dropout," tonight at 8:30 in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall. Proceeds will go for the support of law students working on northern and southern civil rights projects this summer...
...Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Wyoming. In Massachusetts, the state's highest court has authorized law students to appear in lower courts and to defend indigents in cases involving less than 2½ years' imprisonment. At Boston University, law students now get classroom credit for courtroom practice in Roxbury, a predominantly Negro slum where 70% of defendants cannot afford lawyers. Lest a student prove unequal to his job, a veteran teacher-advocate is always on hand to rescue the client. Every law student needs such training, says B.U.'s Assistant Law Dean Robert L. Spangenberg...