Word: courtroom
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...witness entertained the jurors in the Brooklyn federal courtroom last week with reminiscences of how, as a young man of 17, he cruised around Long Island smashing windows with a slingshot to boost sales at his father's glass business. He told of swindling $30,000 from the Attorney General of Bolivia and, by age 50, becoming so adept at devising con games that he franchised them to other swindlers and earned the nickname "the McDonald's of con men." But in 1977, the FBI caught Melvin Weinberg, now 55, trying to fleece Singer Wayne Newton and several...
Kenton and Musico, who still face up to two years in jail, must undergo psychiatric tests before the judge decides whether to place them on probation. Morantz, who sat in the front row of the courtroom as the deal was announced, declared himself satisfied. "I'm very happy," he said. "To have them stand up in court and admit-they're guilty gives me an enormous amount of satisfaction...
Thus the trial, now in its fourth week, is being closely monitored by Mexican Americans. Every day they pack the courtroom's ten benches. Others march outside, carrying signs reading PROSECUTION, DO YOUR JOB and JUSTICE FOR ALL. Mexican Americans resent the fact that the jury again is all white and criticize the Government attorneys for not better preparing the three aliens for the witness stand. Meanwhile, the Hanigan brothers sit impassively in court, scribbling endless notes as they listen to testimony. Their defense is simple: they contend that they were elsewhere when the aliens were tortured. If convicted...
...were, they were announced with little ah" of drama. On Wednesday, when the final three decisions came down, some two dozen reporters jammed the basement pressroom of the Supreme Court building and grabbed for copies, prompting a court employee to snap: "Behave!" But upstairs in the ornate red-draped courtroom, the tourists who occupied most of the seats had little idea what was going on. The black-robed Justices referred to the cases by their uninformative docket names (the quotas case, for example, was identified as Fullilove vs. Klutznick), and Chief Justice Warren Burger announced two of the decisions...
...obviously seemed to imply that judges could close not only hearings but also actual criminal trials if a defendant agreed. Indeed, only a week after the decision, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed Judge Richard H.C. Taylor's decision to bar two reporters from a murder trial in a courtroom in Hanover, Va., where Patrick Henry had once orated in defense of freedom. Although several Justices later said publicly that their judgment had been misunderstood, more than 200 instances occurred in which various local judges attempted to bar the press from their courts. Last week a Supreme Court that appeared...