Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same story, as explored last week in a Virginia City courtroom, seemed to belong not in a paperback novel at all but in a casebook of parental pathology. As the younger of the so-called mountain men went on trial in the abduction and wounding of Swenson and the killing of Alan Goldstein, neither of the accused--Dan Nichols, 20, and Don Nichols, 54--disputed the facts. Instead, both testified to an almost grotesque relationship in which the son had been manipulated into a state of worshipful dependency on a father who despised and defied conventional society. Dan's foster...
...largest brokerage firm. Hours before Fomon appeared at a press conference in New York City last week, Hutton President Scott Pierce had pleaded guilty on behalf of the firm to 2,000 separate criminal charges of mail and wire fraud. After accepting Pierce's pleas in a Scranton, Pa., courtroom, Federal Judge William Nealon fined Hutton the maximum $1,000 on each charge, or a total of $2 million. Never before had a prestigious Wall Street investment group acknowledged such a major fraud...
...anguished face of a young woman. To the reporter who questioned her, she replied, "They have killed Aquino. Why are you not crying yet?" Last week Rebecca Quijano, 32, now known as "the crying lady," became the first civilian eyewitness of the shooting to testify in the Manila courtroom where the armed forces Chief of Staff, General Fabian Ver, 24 other soldiers and one civilian are being tried for Aquino's murder. The 26 are also accused of the murder of Rolando Galman, who was identified by the military as a Communist agent and Aquino's killer...
...forward, she told TIME last week, was the belief that going public might be her safest alternative. Said Quijano: "I have no way out. I could not lead a normal life." She endured a chilling moment during her testimony when there was a brief power failure. As the courtroom was suddenly plunged into darkness, Quijano clutched Prosecutor Herrera's arm tightly and pleaded, "Please don't leave me here." Minutes later, the trial resumed...
...there, chained to your chair, in effect, in that cold and drafty courtroom listening to your integrity being questioned and a reporter's integrity is all in the world that he's got--was very draining process...