Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late recruit to the Baader-Meinhof revolutionary cause, Sonnenberg had previously been arrested for demonstrating in a courtroom against prison conditions for convicted terrorists. Becker was a professional revolutionary. First jailed in 1972 for helping to bomb a British boating club in West Berlin, she was one of five imprisoned terrorists released in exchange for kidnaped politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp...
...were finally arrested. Hundreds of them spent the night cramped in school buses and National Guard trucks and were given no food or water. Many waited 14 hours to be arraigned. The arraignment process itself was extremely irregular. One judge was setting bail at $100 while in another courtroom nearby a different judge set bail at $250. Thomson again coptered in to survey the scene, but the confusion continued throughout the next week...
...case, said one U.S. intelligence expert, reaffirmed an old axiom in espionage: "Don't go after the bosses-go after the file clerks." Last week Christopher Boyce, 24, was found guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom on eight counts of spying for the Soviet Union. He could be sentenced to as long as life in prison. No sooner was Boyce's trial finished than the same judge and the same Government attorneys began taking part in a similar case against Andrew Daulton Lee, 25. The Government charges that the two men-boyhood friends-had worked together to give...
...last days of his trial, Boyce surprised the courtroom by taking the stand and in effect admitting he had passed on information (Lee so far insists that he is innocent). Boyce was apparently hoping he could win the sympathy of judge or jury by relating how he became a spy. The defendent told how his father-a former FBI agent -had helped him get a job at TRW, a big California defense contractor. With a "top secret" clearance, he began working in the communications "vault," where he supervised the highly classified communications between TRW and CIA headquarters in Langley...
...case-a privilege that probably would not have been granted to an experienced attorney. But Gesualdo continued to encounter difficulties. He recalled a witness to emphasize the man's inability to identify him; the witness suddenly changed his mind and decided he did indeed remember him. Some courtroom observers thought Gesualdo might have obtained at least a hung jury if he had retained a lawyer clever enough to exploit weaknesses in the evidence against him. But after deliberating 50 minutes, the jury found him guilty...