Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...methodical planning, Joseph Selby had confided his ambitions to many people. In an Austin courtroom last week, he was found guilty as an accomplice in the murder of his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...Assassins!" Into a tiny military courtroom shuffled ten hard-core Communists, held for three years without trial on charges of conspiring with the rebels and secretly reconstituting the banned Communist Party. Prominent among them: Journalist Henri Alleg, 39, author of the international bestseller, The Question (TIME, June 9, 1958), a surreptitiously written and smuggled-out account of the tortures that he suffered at the hands of paratroops of General Jacques Massu's 20th Division. Conspicuously missing was an eleventh defendant: Communist Maurice Audin, a mathematics professor in whose home Alleg was captured in 1957. French authorities say he escaped...
...prosecutor, a major, began the trial by urging that it be held in secret. All ten defendants jumped up chanting "Murderers . . . You are all afraid." The court president, Colonel Rene Catherineau, ordered Alleg removed from the courtroom. At that moment, the fragile voice of a woman barely rose above the din: "I am Madame Audin," she cried. "They don't want me to speak, but I shall speak. My husband has been murdered." Said Court President Catherineau: "But Madame Au din is not accused of anything. You cannot speak." Madame Audin shouted back: "Assassins!" Then Colonel Catherineau announced...
...court last week, Djamila appeared pale and drawn, but otherwise showed no outward signs of ordeal. Faced with a national uproar, the French prosecutor requested a delay "to gather further evidence." Her trial postponed, Djamila was led from the courtroom back to her cell -to wait...
...both grand and comic, often at the same time. The title figure is a gigantic Negro cavalry sergeant (Woody Strode) who has been accused of the murder of his commanding officer and the rape and murder of the officer's daughter. The film might have made a fair courtroom drama if Director Ford had not decided to play the first half of it for laughs...