Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House approved military aid, the most infamous Salvadoran death squad triggermen were convicted of murder. After a nonstop 20-hour trial, a jury of Salvadoran civilians found five former national guardsmen guilty of killing four American women in 1980. Three of the victims were Roman Catholic nuns. The provincial courtroom had a musky, Gabriel Garcia Márquez air. Through swinging saloon doors came and went a family selling sandwiches and coffee to spectators. A group of onlookers stood tiptoe on a junked car just outside-until the rotted car roof gave way. The crowd laughed; when the verdict came...
...Hugh Whitemore, begins on Aug. 3, 1948, the day that Chambers electrified a HUAC hearing by naming Hiss as a Communist. Chambers by then had been out of the Communist Party for ten years, and was working as a senior editor for TIME. The climax is set in a courtroom almost 18 months later, when Hiss-who denied all charges and has continued to do so to this day-was convicted at a second trial for perjury. (His first trial ended in a hung jury.) The intervening events make compelling drama: the discovery of the "pumpkin papers"; the search...
Judge Harry Claiborne seemed at ease last week in Courtroom 2 of the gray marble federal courthouse in Reno. He leaned back in his chair, stroked a finger across his lips, and listened serenely to the testimony in a criminal trial. But Claiborne, 66, chief judge of Nevada's U.S. District Court, was observing the proceedings from a new perspective. He was not the presiding judge, but the defendant, the second sitting federal judge in U.S. history to be tried for offenses allegedly committed while serving on the bench. The charges against Claiborne: taking bribes, obstructing justice and filing...
...speech was testimony, not dialogue, and the courtroom melodrama could claim the legitimacy of a news story. The account came from one of six Portuguese immigrants accused of the gang rape of a young woman on a barroom pool table in New Bedford, Mass. Two weeks before, the alleged victim had described equally vividly a far different version of the same scene, in which she was forced into intercourse, but fought off oral sex, while the bartender and some patrons looked on but did not summon the police...
Though the bench seats resembled pews, this was no prairie Bible conference: it was a four-day trial in state district court in Tulsa. And the person described in the courtroom as a sinner, diminutive 36-year-old Nurse Marian Guinn, was not on trial; her accusers were, Guinn was suing her church and its elders for $1.3 million in damages for publicly condemning her sexual behavior. She charged that in denouncing her, the Church of Christ in nearby Collinsville (pop. 3,500) had invaded her privacy, intentionally causing emotional distress and shattering her "whole world...