Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Doar and Howard Zinn will discuss "The Role of Law in Remedying Denials of Civil Rights," at the second Law School Special Summer Program tomorrow night. The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall...
...disdainful, despicable, scur rilous and contemptuous." Nor did the order stop there: it sent the sheriff hustling to Neal's office to arrest him for criminal contempt of court - punishable in Indiana by up to three months' imprisonment and a $500 fine. Haling Neal to his courtroom, where four mounted animal heads gaze down impassively on the accused, Judge New set bail at a whopping...
...courtroom dialogue sheds a revealing light on the quality of Hungarian justice...
...first time, the Supreme Court last week tackled the issue of whether television in a courtroom denies a defendant's right to a fair trial. The court ruled 5 to 4 that it does and, in the majority opinion, produced a strong argument for keeping TV cameras out of at least all "notorious" criminal trials...
Incalculable Impact. The case at issue involved none other than the 1962 swindling conviction of Billie Sol Estes, whose trial in a Texas state court was televised over his objections. Justice Tom Clark, reversing Estes' conviction,* declared that TV smuggles an "irrelevant factor" into the courtroom that may poison the atmosphere of the trial and therefore denies the defendant's right to due process of law under the 14th Amendment. Among points he cited...