Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise," intones Bailiff Marlene Augustine, and as they have more than 2,000 times before, the jurors and lawyers dutifully comply. Into courtroom 14 of the St. Clair County building in Belleville, Ill., strides the Hon. Richard Goldenhersh, presiding judge in the matter of Frances E. Kemner et al. v. Monsanto Co., Case No. 80-L-970 in the 20th Circuit, State of Illinois. The judge nods a greeting, settles into his leather chair, and trial day No. 534 begins. Another record...
Every morning of the trial, Monsanto's lawyers trundle boxes of documents to court on baggage carts from leased offices two blocks away. The courtroom is cluttered with 4-ft. by 5-ft. symptom boards, outlining alleged dioxin-related plaintiff ills ranging from headaches and high blood pressure to depression and decreased sexual desire. Carr concedes that "none of my clients is falling down sick." But the core of his case concerns possible future cancer developing from dioxin exposure in the 1979 spill...
...sound of rhythmic clapping by more than 150 protesters outside the courtroom, Chief Judge Vladimir Stiborik sentenced Karel Srp, 50, the Jazz Section head, to 16 months in prison and Secretary Vladimir Kouril to ten months. The other three drew suspended sentences. Noting the relative leniency, a Western diplomat called the trial a "symptom of this regime's schizophrenic response to Gorbachev...
Outside the courtroom, Pollard and his wife were making statements that were as legally compromising as anything in their testimony. In a letter published in the Jerusalem Post, Pollard wrote of his "absolute obligation" to spy for Israel and alluded to circumstances in which a person might be forced to use "situational ethics" as a guide to his conduct. His wife, interviewed on CBS's 60 Minutes, spoke of the responsibility of American Jews to aid Israel. Said she: "I feel my husband and I did what we were expected to do, what our moral obligation was as Jews...
...unusually emotional courtroom finale, the Pollards pleaded desperately for clemency. But despite the fact that Pollard entered a guilty plea last summer and since then had been cooperating to some degree with the Government in fingering the Israeli officials with whom he had worked, U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr. concluded that Pollard's crime merited the harshest punishment the court could impose...