Word: courtroom
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When he took office in 1971, the idea of clinical education where a student learns by practicing law either in the classroom or in an actual courtroom situation was unheard of. Now, there are established programs for this kind of training, including the Introduction to Trial Advocacy Program and the Legal Services Institute...
Spirited into a helicopter at the Quantico base by FBI agents, who made him bend over and run, Hinckley late last week was flown to an Army post near Washington. There he was transferred to a limousine and brought in handcuffs to a federal courtroom under security so tight that even the clerk of court had to show identification. A paramedic with an oxygen tank sat behind Hinckley in the courtroom. A court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr. James L. Evans, testified that his three-hour examination of Hinckley showed he was "mentally competent to stand trial." District Court Chief Judge William...
...held in a third-floor homicide squad room while federal and local officials decided who had jurisdiction in his case. The feds won, and Hinckley was photo graphed and fingerprint ed by the FBI. At 11:52 p.m. the heavily guarded Hinckley was whisked into a U.S. district courtroom to be charged formally with the attempted assassination of the President, a crime carrying a maximum life sentence upon conviction, and assaulting a federal officer. Before dawn, he was moved into a small prison cell at the Marine Correctional Facility in Quantico, Va. Just two weeks...
Theodore F. Brophy, 58. With bushy white eyebrows that give him the appearance of a wise owl, Brophy is the consummate advocate, equally at home in a courtroom and before a congressional subcommittee. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he became general counsel for General Telephone & Electronics in 1959. He rose through the ranks by negotiating the acquisition of independent telephone companies. Brophy, who chairs the Roundtable's taxation task force, has urged incentives to encourage capital formation. One of his proposals: income taxes on stock dividends that are automatically reinvested in the company should be deferred until...
...primary factor in Spence's prodigious success rate appears to be his way with juries. A commanding 6 ft. 2 in. and 225 lbs., he is in constant motion in the courtroom, sometimes edging up to the jury railing to make a point in the deep, reassuring baritone that almost led him into a singing career, or to confess disarmingly: "I'm a little anxious about whether I can represent my client-I just wanted to share that with you." Says a former partner, Robert Rose, now chief justice of Wyoming's supreme court: "He comes...