Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a courtroom extravaganza that may shrink the limits of political dissent...
...Hare Krishna," intoned Allen Ginsberg. "Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama." The Hindu mantra worked no spell at all on peppery Judge Julius Hoffman, in whose federal courtroom the bushy-bearded poet was appearing as a defense witness in the Chicago conspiracy trial. When the judge protested that he did not even know what language the guru was using, Ginsberg explained that it was Sanskrit. "Well," huffed Hoffman, "we don't allow Sanskrit in federal courts." Hare, Hare...
Michael P. Wood, a spectator at the trial, was arrested outside the courtroom after a witness said he recognized him as the person who had shoved him repeatedly during the disruption. Wood pleaded innocent to charges of assault and battery and disturbance of a school, saying that he was out of the state on September 25. He will stand trial on the charges Wednesday morning in East Cambridge District Court...
...Courtroom Jammed...
...overflow crowd, 800 potential drug-users, jammed into the Ames Courtroom to hear the moot case. The clubs' faculty sponsors, Livingston Hall. Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and Wesley E. Bevins Jr. 48, asst, dean of the Law School, agreed that they had never seen the Court and the participants so involved in a moot contest before...