Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lyons during World War II, showed no sign of remorse and no great interest in defending himself. Except for three days at the beginning of the proceedings and two forced appearances in order to be identified by witnesses, Barbie exercised his right under French law to boycott the courtroom. The ailing Barbie, 73, seemed almost indifferent to the outcome of the trial. Instead of facing his accusers, he remained in his three-cell complex in St. Joseph prison...
...verdict was read, a spontaneous burst of applause and cheers broke out from the spectators jammed together at the back of the courtroom. From outside in the street came more shouts of joy and the sound of cars honking. When Barbie's lawyer, Jacques Verges, appeared on the steps of the courthouse, an angry mob began forming, and from the crowd came shouts of "SS!" and "Assassin!" Police quickly moved to protect the lawyer, who had challenged not only France's moral right to try Barbie but also the testimony of his victims...
...normally select 150 to 180 on which to hear oral arguments and render written decisions. The Justices begin that process at regularly scheduled discussions. Usually just after 3 p.m. on Wednesdays or at 9:30 a.m. on Fridays, they enter a spacious, oak- paneled conference room, located behind the courtroom. Following a century- old custom, they shake hands with one another and then settle around the rectangular conference table, with the Chief at one end and the senior Associate Justice, currently William Brennan, at the other. The most junior, now Antonin Scalia, sits to Brennan's right and answers...
That was the scene of shouting and shoving outside a Manhattan courtroom last week at the end of what Judge Stephen Crane called the "most difficult case of our time." After four days of deliberations, a jury of ten whites and two blacks had just acquitted Bernhard Goetz of all but one relatively minor charge in the 1984 shooting of four black youths who Goetz said had threatened him on a subway train...
...Canty, 20, and Barry Allen, James Ramseur and Darrell Cabey, all 21, even though the reedy, bespectacled gunman had said in a taped confession that he "wanted to murder" all of them. Not guilty of assault against any of them, not even Cabey, left paralyzed and brain damaged. The courtroom audience gasped at several of the verdicts and at the end applauded...