Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Katrina slept through most of her adoption hearing last week in the sun-washed Charleston, S.C., courtroom. Her would-be mother and father sat nervously alert. An attractive, wealthy couple from out of state, they eagerly testified about their four-acre country estate, swimming pool and well-protected play area as proof of their parental fitness. Yet it was Katrina, at 15 months all blond ringlets and neatly pressed ruffles, who spoke most eloquently on their behalf. Waking up in time to accompany the woman to the witness stand, Katrina clung hungrily to her side, cooing "Mama...
...last week, Judge Robert Mallard made his leanings clear. "No one is contesting the adoption, and the child is obviously well cared for," he said. "What am I to do? Undo the bonds of love that have already developed?" Nestling Katrina in her quilted stroller, the couple left the courtroom beaming...
...superseded a formal judiciary, moreover, litigants have taken to playing off one capricious clerical judge against another, while powerbrokers have simply taken the law into their own hands. After colliding in a scramble to seize private land, two government officials ended up drawing guns on each other in a courtroom last August. Having effected a shaky truce, the judge declared a 30-minute recess, left the room and never returned...
Wearing a dark blue suit, Vaughn stood silently with his hands clasped and eyes downcast as the court clerk read the sentence. He was led immediately from the crowded courtroom...
Vaughn's father, William, also attended the trial every day, always sitting with his wife on the opposite side of the courtroom from the Johnses. Yesterday, he stared blankly at the bench and wept quietly after the sentence was read and his son was led from the courtroom...