Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show trial, the largest in Egypt's modern history. The makeshift courtroom is an exhibition hall at the Cairo fairgrounds, where 280 prisoners are on display in huge steel cages. Another 20 defendants are still at large, and two have died in prison. Most of the prisoners are accused of being members of a Muslim fundamentalist group known as al Jihad (Holy War), and many are linked with the violence that broke out in the Upper Egyptian city of Asyut following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6, 1981. Nineteen of the defendants were among those sentenced...
...registrant. And radicals on campus have endeavored to generate widespread student opposition to opposition, unsuccessfully, one might add. The recent dismissal of charges against David Alan Wayte, a former Yale student, for refusing to register, has raised the hopes of registration opponents that draft registration has failed in the courtroom and its legality is in question...
...release (as opposed to the present system, which requires that the government prove the defendant is still insane and should remain in stitutionalized) would be far less unjust than the guilty but-mentally-ill verdict, and certainly less disingenuous. If the insanity plea has in deed become a big courtroom game, the guilty but mentally-ill verdict does not encourage a change in the rules Rather, it encourages cheating...
After a restless night there, he was taken to a Los Angeles federal courtroom jammed with reporters and spectators...
...months, our financial institutions had managed these huge sums under unique circumstances, and now the twelve major banks had become part of the negotiating process. They had to be certain that these enormous sums were transferred legally and properly to avoid making costly mistakes or exposing themselves to future courtroom battles. Nor did I want to make a mistake...