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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reversal," said Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "It's reneging." The original settlement, said Birmingham Mayor Richard Arrington, who helped negotiate it, "could have healed a 100-year-old wound. Now we will have to fight old battles"-in a federal courtroom, not in Birmingham's streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Sides | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Four television vans are already parked outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Forty-four seats in the courtroom have been set aside for U.S. and foreign news organizations. An adjoining room will hold another 60 reporters. De Lorean, who had difficulty raising his $5 million bail and is paying his high legal fees partly with loans from friends, will probably testify on his own behalf. Cristina may also be called by the defense. The drama's climactic courtroom chapter could last more than two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red-Handed? | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...arrive at the Westchester County courthouse every day in a law-enforcement caravan that starts 18 miles away. Entrances to the courthouse are blocked by concrete barriers to ward off Beirut-style truck-bomb attacks. Participants and spectators are screened twice by metal detectors before entering the eighth-floor courtroom. Outside there are armed police everywhere, seen and unseen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: When Justice Costs Millions | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...from case to case. Brink's-style security is uncommon. More usual cost escalators include lengthy investigations, prolonged jury selection and the growing tendency of lawyers to use streams of well-paid expert witnesses and counterexperts. In trials of indigents, the public must pay for both sides. Some courtroom staff would be employed in any event, but long trials can make it necessary to bring in additional lawyers, clerks and judges. "The price of justice has become astronomical," says James Stewart, director of the National Institute of Justice. "It's like an arms race. I bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: When Justice Costs Millions | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Insurgent Leader Herman Toivo ja Toivo thundered an impassioned defense of his activities in Namibia when he stood in a South African courtroom 17 years ago. Last week, after 16 years in prison, Toivo was released. Two hundred supporters of his organization, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), lined the streets in a town near Windhoek, Namibia's capital, to give him a joyous homecoming. As he descended from the back of a pickup truck flying blue-red-and-green flags, any notion that he had mellowed in Cape Town's Robben Island prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Africa: Herman Toivo ja Toivo, Free at Last | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

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