Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shannon has emphasized an attorney general's need for broad expertise, in drug trafficking, the environment, civil rights and insurance. Shotwell, in turn, highlights Shannon's limited courtroom experience...
...cramped and crowded Dallas courtroom last week, Federal District Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. listened patiently as volleys of charges and countercharges flew between lawyers for the Placid Oil Co. and its creditor banks. On the surface, the squabble over corporate bankruptcy seemed mundane. In fact, the rancorous debate was anything but routine. For Placid is not just any oil company. It is the crown jewel of the financial empire built by the legendary Texan H.L. Hunt and ruled today by his beleaguered sons and heirs. Behind the legal posturing was nothing less than a desperate struggle to save...
...courtroom is the setting for Twilight Zone: The Trial...
...What you will see is no illusion," Deputy District Attorney Lea Purwin D'Agostino told jurors in a packed Los Angeles courtroom. "These were not deaths in which someone can get up and wipe the bloody-looking catsup off their faces . . . They were very, very real deaths." Indeed, said D'Agostino, it was Director John Landis' "zeal for realism" during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie that took the lives of Actor Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter accident on July...
...hinted of better days as the alleged head of the Gambino crime family. While attorneys painstakingly questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom with his attorneys but would have to return to the basement jail for tuna or ham sandwiches. "Judge," said the obviously annoyed Gotti, "why don't we just...