Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were all given numbers that separated us into panels. When a jury was needed for a trial, they called one or more of the panels to go up to a courtroom. There would then be a selection process with questions designed to separate people who might not be able to serve on the jury of a trial and hear the evidence with an unbiased ear. I sat and read the newspaper for a long time before my panel was called, and my excitement began to build...
Speaking at Harvard Law School's Ames Courtroom, Dershowitz said he opposed using drugs and that he would wipe them out if he could. But he added, "I just don't believe there's any way to interdict them...
...West gained a bit more ground last week in its fight against the scourge of terrorism. In a high-security courtroom in Frankfurt, Mohammed Ali Hammadi faced the most damaging testimony yet in his two-month-old trial for the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the murder of a U.S. Navy diver. In Beirut, meanwhile, West German Businessman Rudolf Cordes, kidnaped 20 months ago as a direct result of Hammadi's capture, was suddenly released. Thus Bonn, which had unwittingly put its citizens at risk because a terrorist happened to fall into its hands, could breathe easier...
...while Dalton has claimed that the faculty discriminated against her in part for her adherence to Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought, she said she did not want the courtroom to be a forum for a debate over...
Asked outside the courtroom what he did yell, Laub said with a smile, "Death to the fascist...