Word: courtroom
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Gideonse oversees a training program that takes the uninitiated students from their casebook academics to the courtroom floor. Once cleared by the Law School Dean's office, program participants accompany veteran student attorneys on visits with clients. After observing a series of disciplinary bearings, they step into the role of defense attorney representing prisoners charged with infractions...
...than 400 court cases. Jesse Choper, dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, places Tribe at "the very top of his field" as one of the law's most brilliant scholars. In recent years. Tribe has also become a fearsome presence in the courtroom, where he generally takes the liberal side of legal and social issues. "I have enormous respect for his ability, his intelligence and his analytical skills," says U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee, who represents the Government in cases before the Supreme Court. The conservative Lee says that he and Tribe disagree...
CHRISTMAS WOULDN'T BE the same without the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, alias "The Grinch") waging its annual legal campaign to remove Nativity scenes or "creches" from Christmas displays. Numerous courtroom challenges and conflicting decisions have transformed the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment into a bewildering legal enigma. But the U.S. Supreme Court this year may substantially clarify the extent to which municipalities can promote the religious aspects of Christmas in the pending case of Lynch v Donnelly...
...like someone had hit me over the head with an iron pipe," said one defense attorney, Theo Mitchell. "The sentence shocked everyone in the courtroom-the clerk, the solicitor, the sheriff, even the victim." As for Defendants Roscoe James Brown, 27, Mark Vaughn, 21, and Michael Braxton, 19, "they really didn't understand the import at first," said Glenn W. Thomason, another defense lawyer. "They thought he meant sterilization. I explained that he meant cutting their testicles off. That put them in a state of shock, to put it mildly." Nevertheless, the three are so terrified of a long...
...tawdry reprise of an old scandal. In a Washington courtroom where former Environmental Protection Agency Official Rita Lavelle stood trial for perjury last week, the familiar charges of conflict of interest and political manipulation flew once again. Former aides told how Lavelle had wept while they hastily removed whole briefcases of sensitive documents. Yet for all the melodrama, the accusations seemed almost irrelevant, an old story relegated to the back pages. Since the scandal climaxed last spring with the firing or resignation of the EPA's top echelon, the agency has been seemingly transformed into a model of probity...