Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody loves an informer. But in fighting organized crime, the Government needs professional informers to provide courtroom testimony; most other witnesses are reluctant to give it because it is axiomatic that in certain cases a short memory means a longer life. That is why federal prosecutors have cherished an obscure but highly talkative New York labor lawyer named Herbert Itkin. Currently, Itkin is creating a crisis for the law enforcers...
...Santa Monica-jailed for contempt. The others-Michael Kennedy of San Francisco and Dennis Roberts of Oakland-obtained a supervening order from a U.S. district judge in San Francisco. Ordinarily, a lawyer appears in court to withdraw from a case; Hoffman was overreacting to a relatively minor breach of courtroom protocol. Although Judge Hoffman later canceled his order, 13 members of the Harvard Law School faculty asked the Illinois Bar Association to investigate his actions. Said the 13: "Judge Hoffman's conduct can only serve to weaken a basic American principle: the right of even the most unpopular defendant...
...reporters left the courtroom, defense counsel handed out reproductions of an article by Pierson in a popular detective magazine which cited his experiences as a "daring undercover officer" who "infiltrated the Yippies' high command...
...warehouse and enlisted his son's help in disposing of her body. According to the elder Saikin, Joel was the girl's killer. Joel passed a lie-detector test, and the authorities put papa on trial for murder. But after hearing all the evidence in a Chicago courtroom last week, a jury of nine men and three women concluded that the truth was past finding...
...gold sandals for the full topless-bottomless effect. Said Municipal Judge Earl Warren Jr., 39, son of the retired Chief Justice: "The jury got a better look than we could have given them with oral testimony or by trying to re-create some of these things in the courtroom...