Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean's assessment of the instructor's individual circumstances." Again, this is precisely the reverse of the accepted procedure in the criminal justice system. It is somewhat akin to a judge accepting the defense attorney's sentencing recommendations while the prosecuting attorney and victim are barred from the courtroom...
...other side of the floodlit, simply furnished courtroom sat Germany's fallen leaders. They had fallen far and hard. Only a short time ago, their words and deeds had brought fear to people from Murmansk to Lands End to Jamestown, N.Y. Now they were just an odd and seedy assortment of soldiers, rowdies, bureaucrats and bourgeois, who hardly looked important enough to have provoked the heavy wave of hatred, disgust and indignation which had swept them to the prisoners...
...upon his innocence, of accusing Government officials of plotting his downfall, of vowing that he would fight to the end, the denouement of the Spiro Agnew debacle came with stunning swiftness. His hands trembling slightly and his Palm Springs tan bleached white with tension, Agnew walked into a Baltimore courtroom last week and admitted that he had falsified his income tax in 1967. When he emerged half an hour later, Agnew had been transformed from Vice President of the United States into a convicted felon...
Thus ended the greatest courtroom victory in many a year. Three years ago softspoken, wild-haired U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q (for nothing) Johnson began his campaign to dispose of gangsters by jailing them for nonpayment of taxes. Said Mr. Johnson: "This is the beginning of the end of Chicago's gangs...
...becomes the unnamed co-conspirator in his own destruction. Arrested and placed on show trial before a revolutionary tribunal, he refuses to fight or flee, since he is unable to resist a performer's apotheosis: a public defense of his life and opinions in a courtroom...