Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Normally, against such a half-cocked prosecution, even a fledgling Perry Mason ought to be able to spring his client in a fair trial. But Crawford, 37, a service representative for International Harvester, was being tried in a dingy Moscow courtroom on obviously trumped-up charges that he had violated Soviet law by exchanging $8,500 for 20,000 rubles with Soviet black marketeers over a 14-month period. (At the official exchange rate, $8,500 buys 5,903 rubles.) Despite Crawford's protestations of innocence, along with what Western court observers called an unusually spirited defense...
...broken windows and fix damaged locks. Since 1974, the National District Attorneys Association has sponsored victim-witness assistance programs through 68 offices all over the U.S. Other groups, including the Junior League in Chicago, have pitched in, providing encouragement to witnesses. With some success apparently: in one Chicago courtroom the Junior League ladies have cut the number of no-show witnesses in half. But progress is slow where the problem is deepseated; Vera's Brooklyn project, for instance, has made what Feinstein calls "minor improvements," whittling down the nonappearance rate from...
Some of the spectators who packed the courtroom last week for the bond hearing are actually fans of Davis' and have followed his trials for two years. Many are bleached blondes, with heavy makeup and flashy jewelry, resembling Priscilla or Davis' girlfriend, Karen Master. They chew gum and file their nails during the proceedings. During the recesses, they talk of their fondness for the various participants, especially the darkly handsome Davis, as if they were favorite characters on a television soap opera. Says one spectator, Mrs. Texas Methven, a middle-aged retired secretary: "I'm praying...
...long-range implications of such plans are enormous. Lawyers will be used for "preventive care" to avoid disputes or help resolve them outside the courtroom. Litigation may well increase?but only, says A.B.A. Consultant Philip Murphy, "because individuals with rights assert them rather than sleep on them." If most citizens are educated about their rights and have private counsel to help them, predict Werner Pfennigstorf and Spencer Kimball of the American Bar Foundation, there will be "dramatic changes in the social fabric...
...courtroom histrionics tended to obscure the real question in the case: Was Vande Wiele's action, which he freely admits, medically and legally justifiable, and did Mrs. Del Zio's emotional and physical problems stem from any trauma she might have suffered from learning of the destruction of her ovum? Should the jury find for Mrs. Del Zio, doctors involved in such experiments will have to weigh carefully their legal liabilities before considering these new procedures...