Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from crusading counselor to wild-eyed revolutionary. Through Laszlo, Linson and Kaye make their feeble attempt at social commentary. He rages and sputters at the judge who sentences his teenage defendant Billy (Jon Matthews '83) to five years in prison for possession of a pound of marijuana. This first courtroom scene sets the tone of Laszlo's character for the rest of the film. He's passionate and irrational, but that...
...trial was as meandering as the Suwannee River. For 16 weeks, lawyers argued their cases before Atlanta Judge Charles A. Moye Jr.-with the help of courtroom bombast, some 20,000 documents and 173 witnesses, including testimonials from luminaries like Lillian Carter. Finally, after mulling over the evidence for eight days, the jurors last week reached a verdict. They found former Budget Director Bert Lance not guilty on nine counts of bank fraud, but deadlocked on three other counts of banking violations. As the jurors filed out of the courtroom, several of them waved at Lance and his wife LaBelle...
...Different Courtroom...
Thus all the pleasing mummery in the courtroom, all our political insulation, indeed all our power, is designed to support a message: "Whichever side you're on, we are not on your side or your opponent's side; you must persuade us not that you've got money or that you've got votes, but that your cause is lawful and just." That is a role worth fulfilling...
...deciding the questions that all the rest of the social matrix has found too hard to answer. But the effort is worth it. For the job of adjudication is to decide those questions according to particular rules and free of the influences that often affect decisions made outside the courtroom. We represent a third value that is not, and is trusted not to be, the prisoner of either wealth or popular prejudice...