Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deaver's daughter, Amanda, 17, sobbed as she left the courtroom with her mother. His wife, Carolyn, appeared drawn...
...threat or a curse. Her stepfather's caress may have been foreplay to child abuse. Her ex-husband's ardor may have sheathed sexual brutality. Indeed, the smothering affections of all people may have driven Claudia nuts. That is why she sits edgily in a New York City courtroom, at a hearing to determine if she is competent to stand trial on a manslaughter charge. Claudia is a $500-an- hour call girl, and her "victim" was an aging john -- one more man who believed that pain is at the core of love...
...course the flight to fantasy in the courtroom is not without its dangers. It is more than a little disturbing to hear someone from the left-wing suggesting that God needs to be put back in the courtroom...
Attorneys representing the four are appealing on a variety of other points as well. The briefs said the attorneys will tell the justices that jurors in the case were prejudiced by cameras allowed into the courtroom by Young, who ruled that pictures could be taken of the defendants but not of the victim...
Outside the courtroom, Ferraro blasted prosecutors for bringing an "empty political indictment." Ferraro, whose family has endured numerous investigations since she was Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984, faces yet another legal hurdle: her son John Zaccaro Jr. is charged with selling cocaine at Middlebury College in Vermont...