Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nguyen Lau, a softspoken, London-educated Vietnamese journalist who until three months ago published Saigon's English-language Daily News. After the authorities discovered that he had discussed his views on peace with a Viet Cong agent, Lau was arrested. Last week, in a dimly lit Saigon courtroom, a military tribunal sentenced him to five years imprisonment for "actions detrimental to the national security...
...kill three men, Hathaway cuts between a two-shot of Wayne and the examining attorney for their dialogue and a two-shot of Wayne and the judge for theirs. Maddy at the hanging is present head-on and medium-close against a background which is a neutral as the courtroom. Because nobody in the film shows any development or chance in their attitude and since nothing "wrong" results from the characters' actions, Hathaway's shooting forces us to believe that he condones these values, that he is in favor of them, presumably because these are the values of the west...
...popular tradition is false. Far from inciting tragedy, the clergy "acted throughout as a restraint upon the proceedings and it was their misgivings which finally brought the trials to an end." (Clergymen had much influence but no office; the Bay Colony was no theocracy.) The afflicted girls, whose courtroom convulsions at the sight of the accused convinced the judges, were not spiteful exhibitionists, but felt themselves to be truly afflicted. In fact, writes Hansen, the girls had good reason for their hysterical terror of witchcraft. "There was witchcraft at Salem, and it worked. It did real harm to its victims...
Five hundred students and faculty crowded Ames Courtroom yesterday afternoon for a colloquium on disruptive dissent and University decision-making. Vern Countryman, professor of Law, told the audience "Any rational man could have predicted precisely what happened when he was told that police from Cambridge and Somerville, among other places, had been summoned. Those forces had been waiting for that opportunity for at least 100 years," he said...
...Negro Judge George Crockett, 59, of the city's Recorder's Court. Wakened at 5 a.m. by the news of the mass arrests, Crockett hustled to police headquarters while the prisoners were still being processed. He moved into a small unused office, set up a makeshift courtroom, began reviewing each case. He ordered that 16 of the prisoners be let out on $100 bail and 22 be held, before Wayne County Prosecutor William Cahalan arrived to protest the releases. Cahalan insisted that police needed more time to run the paraffin tests that could determine whether...