Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoot you. What is to be gained by having everyone's fear become a legitimate basis for subway shootings? True, race enters the Goetz case only because society is racist, but there should be some point where racism can not be a justification for action; that place is the courtroom...
Cries and shouts erupted in the courtroom. The judge called for order, but spectators and lawyers for the civil plaintiffs loudly protested the move by Barbie, who is accused of committing atrocities against French Jews and Resistance fighters while he was head of the Gestapo in Lyons between 1942 and 1944. "You should remain and look into the eyes of the people you tortured!" cried a victim from the gallery. "But you refuse. You are a coward." Shouted a lawyer representing some plaintiffs: "Klaus Barbie is making a mockery of justice!" Said another: "I represent 6 million victims who cannot...
...landlord the return of a security deposit on her rented apartment and resisted his advances, he dispatched two men last June to slash her face with a razor. The instantly notorious New York City attack left Hanson with visible scars, but the 25-year-old model says the courtroom assault that followed was worse. At one of the resultant trials, a defense attorney claimed, without producing evidence, that she was helping prosecutors frame the two slashers because they were black. He alleged that she was sexually voracious and "preyed on men." He even confronted Hanson with an anatomical obscenity that...
...offers self-defense as the reason why he shot four black youths who he suspected were preparing to rob him. His attorney has relentlessly highlighted the criminal intentions of the four. The American Bar Association's code of ethics, which requires that attorneys zealously defend their clients, forbids degrading courtroom accusations only if they are also irrelevant. Formal discipline by the bar for violations is apparently rare. In essence, the dividing line between zealousness and callousness is left to a lawyer's discretion -- and his sense that such tactics might backfire, creating juror hostility toward his client...
...mini will fare in the office, among yuppies not known for frivolity, is a legitimate question. "A woman in the record industry wearing a miniskirt is one thing, but a woman district attorney pleading her case in the courtroom is another," says Sylvia Percelay, a designer at Bullock's in California. A bit defensively, designers insist that strong-shouldered jackets will instill the image of serious intelligence, despite the drafty little skirts. Few women buy that. "Power shoulders, power lunches maybe, but not power flesh," says Linda Aronson, 28, a marketing executive on Wall Street who will save her skimpy...