Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California courtroom, an accused murderer will soon be confronted by a novel adversary. A witness for the prosecution will be an atomic scientist, armed with "radiation fingerprints," evidence that can be as accurate and reliable as a photograph of the actual crime. No ordinary cop could hope to gather such fingerprints, or even to decipher them. They are the product of neutron activation analysis, which requires that specimens under study be irradiated with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Then the fine details of their chemical composition can be deduced from the pattern of the radiation they give...
Wrapped in blankets to ward off the night chill, some of the throng dozed on field cots or in collapsible chairs. Bookmakers' odds on the outcome fluctuated. Early betting predicted a decision of guilty, but by the time the judges filed into the courtroom last week, the odds had inched to even money that Defendant Vera Brühne would be acquitted in West Germany's most spectacular murder case since glamorous Rosemarie Nitribitt, the rich man's call girl, was strangled with one of her own stockings...
...outcome of the trial stunned France. In the dimly lit courtroom of the Palais de Justice, ex-General Raoul Salan had openly accepted responsibility for armed rebellion against De Gaulle's government and for more than 400 documented killings committed by his Secret Army Organization in Algeria. His deputy in the S.A.O., ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, had already been condemned to death. Two days before the Salan trial ended, an official asked newly appointed Justice Minister Jean Foyer where Salan should be imprisoned if his life were spared; Foyer dismissed the question as an "idiotic assumption." But last week...
Dying Core. What had probably influenced the nine judges more than any possible deals, more than courtroom melodrama, was the desire not to create a martyr and to keep the French right from being totally alienated. Since the April trial of ex-General Jouhaud, condemned to death by the same tribunal, the atmosphere has changed. Earlier, there seemed strong possibility that Moslems and Europeans might eventually live together in peace in Algeria, and the S.A.O.'s terror seemed all the worse against the backdrop of this hope. By the time Salan went on trial, the situation had deteriorated...
...courtroom, the verdict was tumultuously received. Right-wing standees in the court yelled, howled, clapped their hands. Someone began singing the Marseillaise, and Lawyer Tixier-Vignancour stiffened to attention, bellowing out the chorus. Salan was visited in prison afterward by his 16-year-old daughter, Dominique, and told her: "I lived those last minutes of the trial in a dream. Then I saw all those people, so still and quiet all afternoon, suddenly jump up and shout and sing the Marseillaise. Magnificent...