Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only clear-cut aspect of the conspiracy case against retired New Orleans Businessman Clay Shaw was the verdict. After pumping the case for two years in public and six weeks in the courtroom, District Attorney Jim Garrison got less than an hour of the jury's time in deliberation before they unanimously acquitted Shaw of plotting to kill President Kennedy. A less obsessed prosecutor might have reasoned from those circumstances that the jury believed he had no case. Not Big Jim. Said he: "The jury verdict simply indicates that the American people don't want to hear...
...several ways. Shaw has announced that he is considering legal action, which could be either against Garrison or his group of backers. The American Bar Association has hinted that it might want to investigate the D.A.'s "motives." Garrison's real test will take place outside the courtroom. He is up for reelection next November...
...exited from the courtroom in a rain of spring flowers, the crowd shouted, "We're with you, Irina!" When one furious KGB guard stomped on a bou quet, a girl friend of Irina's grabbed it and struck the secret policeman on the head with the flowers. After a scuffle, Irina was spirited off to prison in a truck that looked like a bread-delivery wagon. Russian spectators recalled a sim ilar scene in the last chapter of Al exander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle, when the hero, Gleb Nerzhin, is carried off to a Stalinist...
...breakthrough for Garrison came in what will probably be one of his few courtroom appearances, since he leaves most trial work to assistants. While the jury and two alternates were being chosen (an all-male group with eleven whites, three Negroes, only two college graduates among them), Garrison entered the Orleans Parish Criminal courtroom just once, and then only as a spectator. With the jury finally sworn in, Garrison wanted to make certain that the trial started off with all the scope and drama that he deems appropriate. He went to the front of the dimly lit, 38-ft-high...
...approach their duties, some effort should be made to ensure that such duties entail neither undue economic hardship or undue discomfort. One man who is earnestly attempting to minimize the discomforts is Willard Polhemus, the bailiff who will be in charge of the Sirhan jurors when they leave the courtroom. Polhemus is planning weekend sightseeing trips for his charges. "Nothing like Marineland," he hurriedly notes, but there will be relaxing tours of the California coast that "wind up in a nice restaurant where they can dine...