Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COULD HAVE BEEN a courtroom parody and people would have laughed to see such ignorance. But it was a Boston Municipal criminal court and the drama was real...
...added that she had seen the man in the hallway the day of the arraignment and "I saw him in the courtroom before lunch recess...
...over 160 students, faculty and interested persons had jammed Judge Harry Elam's courtroom on the fourth floor. The bailiff called out the defendant's name, and one by one the accused approached the defendant's box, either from the courtroom or the jail entrance...
...left side of the room sat on a pew next to that of labelled "public officers." The "public officers" wore suits, their uniform or simply shirt and jacket; they wore their guns in holsters wrapped around their waists. They were also all white. On the right side of the courtroom stood the two security officers, one Black and one white. Without a smile they assisted defendants in and out of the jail into the courtroom. Sitting in the front in the judge's chair was Judge Harry P. Elam--a Black judge...
...have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this man is guilty and you haven't done this," Elam told the prosecutor. The bailiff announced the verdict as "innocent" and amidst a burst of applause, mostly from the Ezera supporters, the defendant and his Black lawyer left the courtroom...