Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judge Webster Thayer, a garrulous and somewhat simple man, engaged in frequent indiscreet conversations outside the courtroom, according to the testimony of five witnesses. On one occasion he rehearsed a portion of his charge to a friend, asking every so often, "That will hold them, don't you think?" Another time he asked an acquaintance, "Did you see what I did with those anarchistic bastards the other...
...weeks, witnesses in an El Paso federal courtroom testified about charges of mail fraud and conspiracy against West Texan Billie Sol Estes. Then, for another 50 hours, a jury of two women and ten men (four Negroes) considered the fate of the fertilizer king whose vast, partly imaginary agricultural empire caused national scandal last year. Once, the jurors reported that they were deadlocked. But District Judge Robert E. Thomason refused to declare a hung jury, sent the twelve back to their deliberations with the admonition that "some jury, some time, will have to make a decision in this case...
...dock of a tiny, drab Tel Aviv courtroom, head buried in his hands, sat the assistant conductor of the Israel National Opera. Hirsch Barenblat. 48, former commander of the Jewish police in Bedzin. Poland. For two years after he managed to get to Israel in 1958. Barenblat attracted no particular attention. Then, during introductions at a concert in a kibbutz, a member of the audience suddenly leaped up and shouted: "Barenblat, I remember you! You murdered Jews!" The concert broke up amidst angry confusion. In 1961, after a police investigation. Barenblat was arrested and charged under the Israeli law punishing...
...sick thing happened on the way to the courtroom, but triple-sick Comedian Lenny Bruce, 37, wasn't laughing. Like he missed the trial. While a Chicago jury was convicting him for an "obscene" nightclub performance, Bruce was being arrested in Los Angeles, charged with possession of narcotics, and released on bail. Still pending: an earlier narcotics rap and three misdemeanors, two for obscenity and one for slugging a TV newsman...
Shrewd Delay. Algeria was a word much spoken also in a courtroom in suburban Vincennes, where nine would-be assassins were on trial for having tried to kill De Gaulle last August in an ambuscade at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb. As has so often happened in France since the Dreyfus case of the 1890s, the trial was not confined to pertinent evidence but blossomed into a national political affair. Very few Frenchmen had much sympathy for the defendants, but many had grave doubts about how they were being tried...