Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week 19 Neshoba County defendants, trailed by 14 defense lawyers, marched into a courtroom in the Meridian, Miss., Federal Building for the preliminary hearing. Looking on was a curious collection of backland farmers in overalls, local Negroes, big-city Northern reporters and a few young civil rights workers-many of whom badly needed haircuts and a fresh change of clothes. The Justice Department lawyer was young (34), crew-cut Robert Owen. At the front of the room sat U.S. Commissioner Esther Carter, a middleaged, Mississippi-born spinster...
...Western law experts, the most dangerous defect in Soviet legal thinking is the tacit assumption by Russian courts that a defendant has been brought to trial because he is guilty, and that courtroom testimony at best can serve only to mitigate a sentence. The Soviet attitude stems largely from the fact that the kingpin of the system is not an impartial judge but a procurator, a sort of super district attorney and Big Brother rolled into one. As the state's No. 1 law enforcer he conducts investigations, orders arrests, serves as prosecuting attorney, keeps an eye on courts...
...patted him on the back. Two girls embraced him and handed him red roses. Said he: "All the nice people seem to be here." Melchior Wankowicz, 72, one of Poland's most popular novelists, had just been convicted by the not-so-nice people in courtroom No. 16 of "slandering the People's Republic of Poland...
Bellevue's mental patients may be held for observation against their will for up to 60 days. In deciding whether they should go on to state hospitals, the judges manning Bellevue's 7th-floor courtroom are amply served by psychiatric advice, but they need far more information about the patients' families and financial backgrounds...
Last week, in a San Francisco del Rincón courtroom cleared of spectators to guard against attack, the three sisters were found guilty of first-degree murder, white slavery and assorted other crimes and sentenced to the maximum penalty under Mexican law: 40 years in prison...