Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Lawyer Melvin Mouron Belli had come to Dallas to defend Jack Ruby, the only man ever to commit a murder while the whole nation watched. Now, whether or not Judge Joe Brantley Brown decides to let live TV turn the trial into a flamboyant show, a flamboyant courtroom drama is already a certainty. "We will plead him not guilty by reason of insanity," announced Belli after a two-hour interview with his newest client. "We will have some of the greatest names in psychiatry in the U.S. as witnesses. My eyes were moist when he recounted what he went...
...Jazz Singer Aloysius ("Lucky") Gordon, a jilted lover of Christine's; he was first convicted, on her own sober testimony, of beating her and later released on the basis of her drunken tape-recorded confession that she had lied. Thus, as she was led from the half-empty courtroom with tears starting from her eyes, ended what Defense Counsel Hutchin son probably prematurely termed "the last chapter in this long saga that has been called the Keeler affair...
...newspaper reporters, say the journalists and judges (usually elective) who publicly oppose Canon 35. They also claim that modern equipment can make television coverage unobtrusive, undamaging to decorum. Champions of Canon 35 deny both counts. Just like any other newsman, the television reporter is free to go into any courtroom without a camera, points out Lawyer John H. Yauch, chairman of the committee of the American Bar Association that carefully reviewed Canon 35 a year ago. It is the effects of cameras on jury, judge, lawyers, witnesses and defendant that the A.B.A. objects to. However inconspicuous, cameras turn the judicial...
...danger is illustrated best by some of the more flamboyant episodes in the history of televised courtroom drama in Texas. When one Harry Washburn was tried and convicted in Waco for blowing up his ex-mother-in-law, one of his defense attorneys claimed that some witnesses were influenced by the testimony they soaked up from a beer-parlor TV set before being called themselves. When David Frank McKnight was tried and convicted in Amarillo for killing a crippled pawnbroker with a claw hammer, the judge permitted live coverage after the defendant signed a statement saying he had no objection...
...whole mess through its headlong speculation in vegetable-oil futures, and its failure to meet margin requirements brought down Wall Street's venerable Ira Haupt Co. Last week pudgy "Tino" DeAngelis, a onetime foreman in a New York hog-processing company, walked into a New Jersey courtroom crowded with 50 law yers who hoped for some answers. To the exasperation of all, DeAngelis took the Fifth Amendment 58 times in re sponse to questions...