Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Affair makes a sleepy British university common room crackle with the charges and countercharges of a courtroom trial. Adapted from the novel by C. P. Snow, this drama is concerned with justice for a man whose personality is revolting, and whose politics are scarcely less...
Last week 500 spectators in the Liėge courtroom cheered and applauded as Dr. André Herpin, who signed the death certificate, testified: "If I had been the only one to know about the killing, I would have written 'Death from natural causes.''' The court asked whether Herpin had examined the baby's body. "No," he replied hoarsely. "I did not have the courage to undress...
Jurymen and spectators in a darkened Belgian courtroom last week gasped with shock as a professor of clinical medicine showed lantern slides of babies who had been born without arms or legs, or with other crippling deformities because their mothers had taken thalidomide early in pregnancy. The young mother in the prisoner's box covered her eyes. She had seen such a baby last May. It was her own, and she had killed it. Now she was on trial for her life. Being tried with her for conspiracy were her husband, mother, sister, and their family doctor, Jacques Casters...
...woman who has been falsely accused of adultery by her husband's political enemies. Told partly through Daumier-like drawings, partly through live action (mostly the narrowing of Mlle. Morgan's elegant nostrils), it takes place in France of 1885 and culminates in a noisy courtroom acquittal. Moral: it doesn't pay to underestimate the power of a nostril...
...death. There was a public outcry for a hanging, and the boy was duly sentenced to die, but not before Rogers, a lifelong foe of capital punishment, had fought the case to the Supreme Court with tenacity and eloquence. Beneath Rogers' malarkey, his swagger and his courtroom stunts was a real compassion for the outcasts of the world. "Who are we to take life, life given to this man by whatever power gives life?" he demanded. "To rob him of his chance to repent, to expiate, to throw him straight into hell like a bundle of old rags...