Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wearing a blue suit and a basset-hound expression, the burly man sat calmly last week in the witness chair of Atlanta's federal district court, facing the jammed courtroom. "My name is Thomas Bertram Lance," he boomed out. Thus, 2½ years after he was forced to resign as Jimmy Carter's Budget Director, eleven months after he was indicted for bank fraud and three months after his trial began, Bert Lance finally got his day in court...
...Charles A. Moye Jr. dismissed 13 of the 33 counts against Lance and his three codefendants, including the most serious charge of conspiracy. This raised the ex-banker's hopes of acquittal. Of that, said Lance, "I'm as confident as the day I walked into this courtroom...
...five women were dragged or carried by deputy sheriffs into Judge William Kelly's heavily guarded courtroom last week in Evanston, Ill. They claimed to be freedom fighters and demanded to be tried in military courts. "I am a prisoner of war," screamed Carlos Alberto Torres, 27, who had been on the FBI's Most Wanted list since 1977. Impassively, Judge Kelly ordered the defendants held for arraignment this week. As Torres was hauled off to Cook County Jail, he shouted: "?Viva Puerto Rico libre!" Outside the building about 50 supporters waved red flags and chanted: "Drive...
...editorial and on April you returned to the charge. Both news and editorial were written by the reporter-a curious procedure and one that involved much rehashing of the material. I presume that the breathless quality of Ms. Russell's prose--with its "parody" of justice, its hushed courtroom and bursts of applause and rounds of chuckles, its tear-stained mother and then the man "wearing a grieved face"--can be attributed to haste and high feeling. Ms. Russell's and Mr. Ezera's emotions are understandalbe, but on may perhaps be pardoned for finding them singularly misdirected...
...doubtful) when he denied involvement with the theft; or the plaintiff McGaw made a serious mistake when she originally identified the defendent. The arresting officer was formal as to Ms. McGaw's certitude about Mr. Ezera: why doubt his word any more than Mr. Ezera's? But in the "courtroom parody" the error was corrected. The plaintiff, for motives unspecified (awe? fear? doubt?), withdrew her identification. Judge Grabau, although white, displayed the same rigor as Judge Elam: he summoned counsel to the bench, pronounced Mr. Ezera innocent, and thereby expunged the arrest from his record. Your reporter describes this...