Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thorpe, are you guilty or not guilty?" The clerk's loud, unemotional voice carried across the small, airless courtroom to the oak and glass-paneled dock. The tallest of the four defendants, a somber figure in a dark gray suit, stood uncertainly. When it came, the response was low and fatigued: "Not guilty." With that, former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, once a rising star of British politics, last week went on trial in London's Old Bailey criminal court for conspiracy and incitement to murder...
Experts lined up in Nesbitt's courtroom last week to testify against the electronic nemesis of motorists. "Radar is highly inaccurate, and the officers who use it are grossly undertrained," claimed former Traffic Cop Rod Dornsife. Said Dale Smith, who used to manufacture the units and is now a consultant for Fuzzbuster radar detectors: "Our experience shows that radar is probably wrong 30% of the time." That comes as no surprise to many an aggrieved driver, let alone maligned houses and palm trees in Florida. Bring back the cop on the motorcycle...
...From courtroom to boardroom
Instead, the trial will center on a fact not in dispute: that Silkwood had been exposed to enough plutonium to make her fear that she might be dying. The courtroom clash will come over just how that contamination occurred and whether it meant that the plant was negligent in handling the potent metal, which is used in atomic weapons. Plutonium is considered some 20,000 times more deadly than the venom from a cobra if ingested, and even minute quantities can cause cancer years later. As testimony opened in a federal court in Oklahoma City last week, Dr. John Gofman...
Thus disputes have long been resolved outside the courtroom. Under the Communists, community and factory mediation committees have handled small matters, like bicycle collisions or family squabbles. The emphasis is on conciliation and confession, sometimes extracted at "struggle sessions" between the offender and his neighbors or coworkers. More serious crimes, like robbery or rape, are dealt with by the police, usually with party officials looking over their shoulders. Although the crime rate is hard to determine, not many Chinese go to jail. For instance, Shanghai (pop. 10.8 million) has only 2,600 inmates in its prison, giving the city...