Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case each referred to involved Zimbabwe's Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development Edgar Tekere, 43, and seven youthful bodyguards, charged with murdering a white farm manager four months ago. Flanked by his lawyer in a Salisbury courtroom last week, Tekere glowered menacingly as white South African-born Justice John Pittman, wearing the traditional red robe and curly wig, began reading the verdict. Pittman's dry voice droned on for 50 minutes, but his final words rang out like a shot: "All the accused are acquitted...
...chamber erupted in pandemonium. Tekere, barely fighting back his own tears, fell into the arms of his weeping wife. His jubilant supporters hustled him out of the courtroom and into a cheering throng of well-wishers, many of whom raised their arms in clenched-fist salutes. From upper-story windows of the courthouse, white civil servants gazed stunned and stony-faced at the impromptu fete...
...shouting, her voice was heard on the scratchy recording: "I tell you, Liu Shaoqi is a big counterrevolutionary, a big hidden traitor, a big renegade and a big enemy agent." She declared: "He deserves a thousand cuts, ten thousand slashes." After listening to the recording, Jiang leaned into the courtroom microphones and admitted that the voice was hers, but added, "I can't make it out clearly. There's nothing important in it. I only know that it's my voice...
...landlord: "I have just read your fascinating book and have put [my wife's and my] duplexes up for sale. We can't survive with all those lawsuits you promote." The guides have produced relatively few suits; most readers use them as an aid to routine, non-courtroom procedures...
...appear on each poster: "The secular application of the Ten Commandments is clearly seen in its adoption as the fundamental legal code of Western Civilization and the Common Law of the United States." But that did not sway many members of the high court, who themselves sit in a courtroom decorated with artists' renderings of the Commandments. "The preeminent purpose," ruled the majority, was "plainly religious," because the document is "undeniably a sacred text" for Jews and Christians...