Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove that she had been the wife rather than the paramour of a Nevada millionaire. In 1888, after Terry himself married Sarah, the case came before Supreme Court Justice Field, who was also serving as California's U.S. circuit judge. When Field ruled against Sarah, Terry floored a courtroom bailiff, served six months for contempt. After his release, he attacked Field on a California train and was about to draw his bowie knife when Field's bodyguard shot and killed him. Field went on to serve the longest term in Supreme Court history (34 years, nine months). Sarah...
...something both locally and nationally for the poor and oppressed." But the poor and oppressed of Harlem apparently have little use for the Progressive Labor Movement or for leaders of Epton's stripe. When the jury brought in its verdict, there were three spectators in the courtroom...
...schools were dominated by aging scholars, experts in the traditional legalisms of writs, torts, contracts and real property. The civil rights revolution has helped to change all that. Led largely by lawyers, it has spawned a new breed of young law professors- awesome activists in the courtroom as well as the classroom...
...state criminal courts. In Malloy v. Hogan (1964), the Fifth Amendment guarantee against self-incrimination was also extended to the states. As a result, the court took the next step-concluding that police interrogation itself is so crucial in prosecution, that at this stage, as well as in the courtroom, an accused's rights to silence and to counsel add up to more than a right not to be "overborne...
...been in drama at college." Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant." The main problem, the Colonel explained, was keeping jurors from discovering "true character" in the courtroom corridors "when the actor gets off the witness stand...