Word: courtroom
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...habits. His company recently hired Movie Director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) to create a TV commercial that would alert viewers to the horrors of huge deficits. The result is The Deficit Trials, 2017 A.D., a futuristic fantasy that cost about $300,000 to produce. Set in a mammoth courtroom, it shows a twelve-year-old prosecutor trying his elders for saddling his generation with a crushing debt burden...
Dershowitz said he and Tom Puccio, von Bulow's courtroom attorney in the second trial, arrived at their decision at a Providence, R.I. "summit meeting" with the socialite just before the second trial began. They concluded that chances for acquittal would be best if the defense's case focused on medical testimony that Sunny's comas were not clearly induced by insulin...
Veronica Perry, 37, who, according to friends, deserves credit for her two sons' successes, emerged from the courtroom with her arm around the shoulders of the 6-ft. 3-in. Jonah. "They murdered one son," she insisted, "and for that injustice, someone is going to have to pay." An obviously relieved Jonah announced that he planned to pack his bags that very night and head back to Cornell to resume his studies...
...security precautions at the Tihar Central Jail in suburban New Delhi were unusually strict last week as heavily armed police guarded a makeshift courtroom for the final hearing of an eight-month trial. Both judge and defendants were protected behind bulletproof glass shields. After taking the bench, Judge Mahesh Chandra wasted no time. The evidence was overwhelming, he said, that the three suspects in the October 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were guilty. Following a brief recess, Chandra declared this to be one of those "rarest of rare" crimes in which the ultimate penalty was clearly called...
...desperadoes took over the courtroom, said Journalist and Hostage Dominique Guillet upon his release a few hours later, "there was a surreal moment when the hostage takers became the magistrate and the jury." That seemed to be precisely what the leader of the criminal gang, Defendant Georges + Courtois, 38, had in mind when he demanded that television cameras be brought into the courtroom. "You have been judging me," the gaunt Courtois said with icy calm. "Now it is our turn to judge you." Waving a pistol and smoking a cigar, he launched into a lengthy harangue, warning that the "slightest...