Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles' trial lawyer Gladys Towles Root, 58, is a one-woman courtroom spectacular. Fuchsia, fire engine and living lava are her favorite colors. Feathers and furbelows rise to Alpine proportions above her peroxide French twist. Her earrings would make a Ubangi wince, and her defense of the Sinatra kidnaping last February was equally gaudy. "The evidence," said she, "is that Frank Sinatra Jr. was running the show. How, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do you like that?" Not much they didn't, and a Los Angeles grand jury last week decided they thought Gladys a bit much...
...court-appointed lawyers are unskilled in criminal law, Project Defender will also support more law-school criminal courses and trial-training internships for recent law graduates. In a day of noncombatant office lawyers, says General Decker, "our biggest job is developing men who can handle themselves in the courtroom...
...head of the American Trial Lawyers Association announced Sunday a plan to rectify the omission of practical courtroom training in American law schools...
...called the lack of courtroom experience "one of the great failures of the nation's law schools...
Cohn's acquittal may be cited by some lawyers to show why prosecutors mortally fear mistrials. After the first courtroom conflict last April, the jury was on the verge of convicting Cohn when the father of one of the jurors suddenly died. The judge excused the juror; as a result, the trial turned into a mistrial (TIME...