Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court reporter. Televising courtroom proceedings [Feb. 9] will make a mockery of what is supposed to be one of the last bastions of a true democracy...
Defiant Puerto Rican terrorists boycott the courtroom...
Spectators were frisked and had to walk through metal detectors. Twice a day, dogs sniffed around for bombs. The courtroom was crammed with evidence-wigs, explosive paraphernalia, even the proverbial kitchen sink (it bore palm prints). Only one thing was missing during the six-day trial at the federal office building in Chicago: a defendant...
...fictitious Arab sheiks that he will help them immigrate to the U.S. Then, just before stuffing $25,000 into his coat pockets, he says: "If I told you how poor I am, you'd cry. I mean, the tears would roll down your eyes." In a Washington, D.C., courtroom last week, the tears were streaming from his wife Judy's eyes as Kelly, who was voted out of office last year, became the sixth present or former Congressman - and first Republican - to be convicted in the Abscam sting...
When she took the stand in her own defense last week-at various times contrite, teary, arrogant and bewildered-Harris brought near a climax a two-month courtroom drama that has combined the dime-store romantics of a Barbara Cartland novel with the sizzling melodrama of a Perry Mason episode. The trial has produced steamy headlines across the country and attracted the toniest of courtroom spectators, at least five of whom are writing books on the case. "I feel Mrs. Harris' behavior on the witness stand is outrageous," said one of them. "She sits there outsmarting everyone, trying...