Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...felt like I was in a courtroom being interrogated all summer long. I responded, "Perhaps our country is naive. Its response is like a crowd, where individual views are transformed into a single decisive posture or character. When one person declares he/she is afraid to travel, many more suddenly jump on the bandwagon...
...succeeded her at the News and began looking for people, as one deputy put it, "who write stories that are a bit of a surprise." He also stressed old-fashioned digging. Last year, after two reporters fished a stenographer's notes from a trash can outside a grand jury courtroom, the paper's revelations based on those notes nearly blew Governor William Sheffield out of office for alleged involvement in a state office- leasing scam. Readers gobbled up the Tale of the Trash Can Papers, as well as the News's coverage (including a regular column by Weaver...
Chicago Court Reporter Richard Dagdigian, like any good stenographer, can take down rapid-fire testimony faster than a judge can bang a gavel. But until recently he was the only one in the courtroom who could decipher his notes. This resulted in long pauses in the proceedings while he flipped through the pages of his stenographic paper to reread testimony. Days might pass before typed transcripts were available. Now, even as Dagdigian's fingers touch the keys of his stenotype machine in the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the unedited transcript, largely in readable English, appears...
...Chicago courtroom and two similarly equipped courts in Phoenix and Detroit are part of a $75,000 experiment that may determine how the courtroom of the future will be set up. Says Jay Suddreth, president-elect of the National Shorthand Reporters Association, which is sponsoring the test: "Court reporters without computer-aided transcription (CAT) generally dictate their notes to a typist, who then types out the transcript. By linking the court reporters to a computer, we can put such waste and redundancy behind...
...systems now being tested go one step further. Stenotype machines are wired directly to the transcription computer, and their output is immediately flashed on the monitors in the courtroom. To review earlier testimony, a judge or lawyer simply turns to a terminal, scrolls through the transcript and finds the passage on the screen...