Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine black-robed Justices walked purposefully to their places at the U.S. Supreme Court bench last week, the ornate courtroom seemed even more somber than usual. Nine months before, the court had allowed the imposition of the death penalty for murder. Now it was being asked to permit capital punishment for crimes in which no life has been taken. The state of Georgia was seeking permission to electrocute Ehrlich Anthony Coker for the rape of a 16-year-old housewife...
...ruling, the first of its kind, is not binding on other courts, but Justice Leahy issued a "dire" warning to prosecutors across the nation to protect religious freedom. At the courtroom, robed and garlanded Defendant Murphy exulted, "Where there is Krishna there is victory." The victory was not total, however. Legal expenses have crippled Hare Krishna activities in New York, the abductors of Merylee Kreshower have escaped prosecution, and Justice Leahy's words are unlikely to deter deprogrammers elsewhere...
American lawyers are churned out of law school with little specialized training in courtroom techniques, Bailey said. The United States has 300,000 lawyers for two million people, and many lawyers "create more problems than they solve to acquire business," Bailey added...
Owens said yesterday that "Roy's actions speak for themselves" referring to his judicial courtroom decisions. "He's known as the 13th juror," Owens added...
...believes that by traditionally stressing legal theory, law schools fail to offer students a sense of everyday practice. To remedy this, he instituted an advanced criminal law seminar that required the twelve students to take an actual prosecution and build their own defense cases from pre-trial procedure to courtroom maneuvers. This year he is focusing on defenses for the criminally insane. Says Amsterdam: "Law students can learn more from knowing how to ask good questions than from studying appellate briefs. To be able to make split-second decisions, they have to feel the law in their bones...