Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After an eight-year legal odyssey that has witnessed motions and counter-motions, destroyed documents and heated pre-trial debate, the case of Barbara Bund Jackson '66 vs. Harvard University reached the courtroom this spring...
...McNamara, chief of the San Jose police department. "How would I know?" Federal agencies often return property when owners can show they knew nothing about the drugs involved, but they are not obliged to. And the rules that govern agency hearings are different from those that prevail in a courtroom: it is up to the accused to prove their innocence. "We have a rule in American jurisprudence that the penalty fits the crime," says Colleen O'Connor of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Confiscation of millions of dollars in property for a joint doesn...
...turn out 2,000 hours of original programming this year, in contrast to 200 hours in 1983. Among the most innovative is the Nickelodeon children's channel, which will produce eight new series this year, twice as many as last year, including a children's talk show and a courtroom sitcom...
...groundbreaking police series Hill Street Blues virtually reinvented TV drama. He followed up that success with the tony courtroom drama L. A. Law and the provocative "dramedy" Hooperman. Bochco is already the most influential and iconoclastic TV producer of the '80s. Now, with a lucrative deal to create ten shows for ABC, he is poised to put his stamp...
Before the verdict was read last week in the Jerusalem courtroom, the defendant complained about a sore back and was carried to an adjacent cell. Thus, after a 14-month trial, John Demjanjuk heard the news by closed-circuit television: a three-judge tribunal ruled that he was Ivan the Terrible, the sadistic guard who helped operate the gas chambers at Treblinka in which 870,000 Jews perished. Like Adolf Eichmann, the only other Nazi war criminal tried in Israel, he could be hanged...