Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prince and claimed that he was descended from the Moldavian kings, and Dr. Gérard Sa voy, a shady Lausanne psychiatrist who specialized in wealthy female patients and who, over the course of 18 months, prescribed for Mrs. Bird 18,970 barbiturate pills. Last week, in a Lausanne courtroom, the doctor was found guilty of murdering the American widow and the prince of stealing over $200,000 worth of her jewels...
Sparrow & Peacock. By the judgment of his colleagues, Belli not only erred in his post-trial blowup; he also bungled his courtroom tactics...
...lecture will be given today at 8 p.m. in Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall...
Jacob J. Spiegel, associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, agreed with Pressman that it is the duty of each and every citizen" to work for "equal justice for all," but he felt the public should observe court proceedings in the courtroom rather than in the newspapers or on television...
...complex field of patents, everyday products have often inspired memorable decisions. The shredded-wheat biscuit became a courtroom cause celebre in 1938, when the Supreme Court set precedent by ruling that Kellogg could make the same biscuit as Nabisco, whose patent had expired and whose link to the shredded-wheat name had faded. The pink color of Pepto-Bismol was at issue in 1959, when a federal court in New York ruled that the pink had a "functional" purpose and therefore could be copied. Last week the Supreme Court handed down a decision of such broad impact that it overturned...