Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overflow crowd at the Ames Courtroom heard him speak of the days when the Law School consisted of one building; when everyone from a professor to the janitor, was called...
...jury's veins, a 24-year-old school teacher named John Thomas Scopes went on trial in the hill-country town of Dayton, Tenn. ("the buckle of the Bible Belt") while half the world wondered and a fair cross-section of it sat sweating in the courtroom. The charge: that Schoolteacher Scopes, by propounding Darwin's theory of evolution to his classes, had violated a Tennessee statute that refused him the right "to teach any theory that denies the story of divine creation of man as taught by the Bible." Attorney for the prosecution: William Jennings ("The Great...
...this gaudy material Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee worked up a courtroom melodrama (TIME, May 2, 1955) that stayed in style for two full seasons on Broadway-partly because, like the trial, it was sure-shot theater, mostly because Paul Muni, who played Darrow, developed his role into an unforgettable set piece of libertarian tirade. Thanks to Producer-Director Stan ley Kramer, Inherit the Wind has now been made into a movie that retains al most nothing of the play but its flashy, trashy script...
Despite the crushing load of cases that allowed him and his tiny staff-seldom more than one secretary and one investigator-no time to prepare any of them properly, he built up an impressive record of courtroom success. Items: Chippy handled 401 cases of homicide. "Even with 'cop killers,'" reports the author, "regarded by all living policemen as bloodstains on their shields, he did rather well." Chippy handled 25 such defendants; five of them got off scot-free, 15 went to prison, only five went to the chair. In the remaining 376 cases, Chippy won 166 acquittals...
...brilliant courtroom orator, nor a subtle legal beagle. But he could sense in an instant the secret weakness of a witness, knew every judge and most of the prosecuting attorneys like the back of his hand. And he exercised a mysterious power over juries. They instinctively liked his warmth and kindliness, were awed and charmed by his patrician bearing. They were also amazed by a memory artist who could quote whole pages of law he had not seen for years, and delighted by an impious wit who, in defense of a teen-aged boy accused of raping a woman...