Word: courtroom
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...Groucho Marx's companion for the last six years of his life. Whatever their life was like together, the battle being waged in Santa Monica, Calif., between Fleming and the bank that was named as Marx's executor has had all the decorum of the courtroom scene in Duck Soup. In the seven-week case, which goes to the jury this week, the Bank of America accused her of gulling the comedian out of $428,000 before he died in 1977 at the age of 86. After outbursts in court, Fleming was examined by a psychiatrist, who found...
Before a crowded, tense courtroom last week, Illinois First Assistant Attorney General Paul Biebel told the Justices that the actions of the Bloomingdale police "can only be characterized as thorough and professional. This is clearly not the kind of activity the exclusionary rule was meant to deter." Speaking against a legal rule that the President has called "absurd," U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee added that the search was made in the "reasonable good-faith belief " that it was constitutional; second thoughts by an appeals court should not bar use of "highly relevant" evidence. James Reilley, the Gateses' attorney, countered...
Beefy, none too tall and often clad in blue jeans and tennis shoes, Flea Market Merchant Giovanni Vigliotto seemed an unlikely Casanova. Yet in a Phoenix courtroom, Vigliotto submitted a list of 105 women from 18 states and nine foreign countries he claims to have wooed and wed over the past 20 years, some of them more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner...
...worked as a contract agent for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953 and 1954 before getting into the flea market business. During the five-week trial, boisterous crowds, often outfitted with bags of food and drinks in ice chests, waited in line for a seat in the small courtroom and a chance to hear the latest installment of Vigliotto's romantic adventures. After the verdict, Gardiner said of the women who succumbed: "I don't think they fell for him. They found someone who told them what they needed and wanted to hear at that time in their...
...history before. The son of domestic servants, he had risen fast to become, at 43, the first black named to the federal bench in Florida. Last week, three years later, he sat as the defendant when a jury of ten whites and two blacks filed into the Miami federal courtroom, after deliberating 17½ hours, to announce their verdict on charges of bribery-conspiracy and obstruction of justice. He hoped that he was not about to go into the history books again, as the first federal trial judge to be convicted of a crime.* A court clerk, verdict in hand...