Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question of whether a man committed an illegal act. Psychiatrists would enter the legal process later, as Dr. Karl Menninger and others propose, not to testify but to advise the court on how to control dangerous offenders and how to treat and rehabilitate the rest. This solution would end courtroom squabbles over the question of responsibility, but could raise a host of new problems and require a drastic reform in present legal processes. It might, for instance, lead to further disputes about whether to send a man to a prison or to a mental hospital for rehabilitation. Ultimately it might...
...suburban courtroom just north of Detroit last week, a high school teacher named Nancy Timbrook clutched a shredded Kleenex as she defended her actions before a judge. She admitted that she had, as charged, written a four-letter variant of the verb "to copulate" on her classroom blackboard...
Without Laughter. In the courtroom, Percy comes across at first as a fit figure for ridicule-a shambling hulk (6 ft. 4 in., 250 Ibs.) of a man with baggy pants. But his opponents know better than to laugh. Foreman combines a superbly skilled legal mind with a brilliant sense of showmanship. In one case, he defended a woman who had killed her husband, a cattleman, because he had flogged her with a whip. As he addressed the jury, Foreman kept picking up the long black whip from the counsel table and cracking it ferociously. By the time...
Foreman is a man of bewildering contradictions. His personal charm, when he cares to exercise it, is overwhelming; yet he has been known to snarl at dilatory waitresses: "I get $200 an hour, and you have taken up $60 worth." In the courtroom, he would almost literally die for his clients; during conferences in their cells, he often cusses them up one side and down the other. With the well-heeled, he is merciless about fees. They must be paid in either cash or property (he owns numerous cars and houses turned over to him in fee settlements). However...
...Matter of J. Rob ert Oppenheimer, Heinar Kipphardt of fers audiences at Lincoln Center's Vivi an Beaumont Theater the chance to weep over the renowned physicist who in 1954 was deprived of his security clearance. The three-man board rep resenting the Atomic Energy Commission sits in courtroom-style judgment as the testimony unfolds like an in terminable dream. Lawyers, friends, enemies discourse on Oppenheimer's Communist relations and friends, on his in spired leadership of the team of physicists who produced the atomic bomb, and on his reluctance to lend himself to the crash program...