Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smalley, against whom charges are pending in Britain for the illegal sale of 60 tank engines to Iran, faces a maximum term of 70 years and a $61,000 fine if convicted on the U.S. charges. He offered courtroom observers little more than the traditional stiff upper lip. "I've got confidence in the American justice system to find me as innocent as I am," he said. "I'm really not a Bluebeard...
...youngsters in a room filled with toys and coloring books. Recalls Social Worker Lucy Berliner: "Once during an interview there, the prosecutor and I lay on the floor playing Candy Land with a little girl as she told us about being molested." Also important is a visit to the courtroom so the child can sit in the witness chair and become familiar with the surroundings...
...witness's competence by picking up a pen and asking the victim, Timmy White, then six, "Timmy, if I told you this thing in my hand is an ice cream cone, would it be the truth or a lie?" To put children at ease, some judges bend courtroom rules a bit. In one Seattle trial, a 5½-year-old witness was allowed to sit on her mother...
Brisbon's eleven months on death row have been quiet, compared with his Stateville years, when he took part in 15 attacks on inmates and guards, instigated at least one prison riot, trashed a courtroom during a trial and hit a warden with a broom handle. "I'm no bad dude," he says, "just an antisocial individual." The third of 13 children, Brisbon thinks that his upbringing by a strict black Muslim father made him different: "I was taught to be a racist and not like whites. As I grew up, I decided I didn't like...
Like last year's Absence of Malice. The Verdict casts Newman in the role of a struggler, rather than a winner. The courtroom drama that unfolds promises a dramatic still life rather than an action packed film, which director Sidney I time makes poignant by drawing parallels between the down-and-out lawyer's efforts to pull together both his case and his personal life...