Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watching staged courtroom dramas can be fun; Perry Mason has proved that. But it is doubtful if one learns much. What is usually carried away is the conviction that cleverness rather than craftsmanship wins the suit. If your story reflected the goings-on at Ann Arbor, the judges and professors who participated should be required to write 100 times: DID NOT THINK...
...only trouble has come from a U.S. attorney who claimed that a defender's eager student aide deprived him of courtroom "mutuality." Since he himself had no such eager helper, argued the prosecutor, the jury might have been prejudiced. The judge sustained the objection, but Chicago's Program Director Ray Berg is hardly daunted; he hopes soon to enroll all of the city's third-year law students in civil as well as criminal cases...
Careless Defendant. At this year's Advocacy Institute ($35), Shapiro's 3,500 students first boned up on two tomes of theory, plus detailed, fictitious depositions. After Yale Professor Fleming James lectured on "reasonable standard of care," they watched courtroom maestros examine "Thomas Covington III," an alert lawyer-actor who insisted that he had taken every precaution before burning grass on his property. A sudden wind gust just happened to whip up the flames that incinerated Neighbor Harvey Williams' $75,000 house, stables and horses...
...rather smell Honolulu at sun set," he said, "than the old police courtroom in San Francisco." He kept his eye unawed, describing the mourning for a deceased royal princess as an occasion when native women writhe "to a weird howling which it would be rather complimentary to call singing." Sometimes he reported earnestly, filing statistic-studded essays on the whaling and sugar industries. He was at his best when he gave in to his sense of humor. Of lower-class Hawaiians traveling on an inter-island schooner, he reported that "as soon as we set sail the natives all laid...
...small press alcoves on the south side of the courtroom were jammed. Reporters who could not find space lined the corridor beyond and scribbled notes as best they could. Court secretaries who normally stick to their typewriters peered through the brass latticework at the cause of all the hubbub: Dr. Sam Sheppard, 42. With the unwitting help of the press, Sheppard had finally managed to have his case heard by the Supreme Court...