Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shouting radical slogans from the Cultural Revolution, Jiang Qing was ignominiously hustled out of the courtroom by uniformed bailiffs. The normally grave panel of judges and prosecutors applauded as the disgraced widow of Mao Tse-tung was declared guilty of "counterrevolutionary crimes" and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. The other nine defendants, each standing in turn to face the court, heard their verdicts with the same passive expressions they had worn since the trial began on Nov. 20. Thus, in a dramatic Sunday morning Peking court session, did China, after a mysterious delay of several weeks, conclude...
...climactic session of the trial against China's once powerful radicals contained few surprises. As the two-hour proceeding got under way at 9 a.m., the defendants were herded into the courtroom one by one and seated behind an iron railing. Three judges took turns reading the court's 14,000-word judgment. It declared each of the defendants guilty of one or more of 46 counts against them, ranging from slandering state and party officials to plotting to assassinate...
...death sentence was announced, made a final, characteristic gesture of defiance by shouting the slogans she had used so often during her heady days of power: "Revolution is no crime! To rebel is justified! Down with revisionism!" At the end of the trial, Jiang refused to leave the courtroom, seeming to want to drop limply to the floor. But she was finally grabbed by the scruff of her neck and expelled from the chamber by three bailiffs...
...helped the girls fight a transfer from Buckeye High to racially mixed Jones Street School. In defiance of the integration order, Lee sent state troopers to escort the students to Buckeye and even did the job himself for four days. In a two-hour session in his courtroom, Scott stressed that he would not retreat on the desegregation plan; he said it would be unfair to the 322 whites already at Jones Street School if the holdouts remained at Buckeye. But Scott also dropped contempt of court charges that could have meant heavy fines for the trio's parents...
...next two days. But the Justice Department sought a contempt of court ruling against Lee, and even the Buckeye Three stopped showing up at school. This week is expected to bring a dramatic face-off between Lee and Scott over the contempt motion-in Scott's courtroom...