Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over 50 members of the Cambridge Peace and Freedom Party, which sponsored the referendum campaign, jammed the galleries of the courtroom. A detail of state troopers was on hand in the morning to guard against disturbances but left after the noon recess. There were no disturbances...
Both papers claim that they investigated the charges and found them unwarranted, so refutation or corroboration is likely to come only in the libel trial-if the case ever reaches a courtroom. Libel suits, and the threat of libel suits, are an embarrassed public official's reflex response to exposure. Yet few suits ever reach the trial stage, particularly in the light of recent Supreme Court decisions involving libel of public figures. To win, Alioto must prove malicious intent or utter carelessness in checking on the part of Look, Carlson and Brisson. Butts won his case because the Post...
...introduced at any inquest," Reardon said last week, "even hearsay on top of hearsay." After granting a postponement, Reardon pointedly implied that District Attorney Edmund Dinis and other authorities involved in the case had been speaking too freely. Such statements, he warned as Dinis sat grimly in the courtroom, "carry the seeds of prejudice against more than one party...
...those who remain unconvinced by Senator Kennedy's explanation of the accident, an inquest may provide a few answers, particularly since the judge wants Kennedy himself to appear. Boyle has agreed to let lawyers for the witnesses into the courtroom to advise their clients when they take the stand, but he points out that Massachusetts law does not require him to do even that. Still, a question arises as to the fairness of the inquest. Some lawyers across the U.S. believe that there might be better ways to get at the facts...
...trial, Mosley competes with a team of four lawyers for the defense. The courtroom is packed with "family," friends who laugh and whisper insults when Mosley raises objections. To further isolate the prosecutor, defense lawyers win a motion to have his principal investigator, Detective Joseph Price, removed from the courtroom on the pretext that they might call him as a witness. The book also strongly implies that judges are often favorably disposed toward sustaining defense objections, perhaps partly to avoid the embarrassment of having the verdict set aside later because of an error in procedure...