Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles Kremer, a retired New York City dentist who lost family members in a 1941 riot in Bucharest. Kremer, now 84, has been trying to get U.S. officials to prosecute Trifa for 30 years. Last week, when the deportation agreement was read, Kremer was sitting in the Detroit courtroom...
...performance one courtroom observe described as "brilliant," a Harvard Law School professor this week argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case that could change liquor licensing laws in as many as thirty states...
...head. Security was so bad I wanted to show as an example that I could get in." As for the alleged theft, he said, "I was thirsty and could not find a tap. [The wine] was in a cupboard. I was just waiting to be captured." As courtroom explanations go, they were certainly imaginative. But they were enough to convince a jury at London's Old Bailey that Michael Fagan, 34, had not acted criminally. After deliberating for only 14 minutes, the jury found the unemployed laborer not guilty of burglarizing Buckingham Palace last June 7, when he drank...
...case has attracted an extraordinary amount of media coverage because of dramatic courtroom testimony given by witnesses and because of the unusually light sentences the guilty doctors received. Sherry added to the circus-like excilement surrounding the various trials when he disappeared temporarily this summer, only to reemerge arguing that he should not be jailed because of a health condition. Finally, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan recently became involved in the rape trial when he denied a personal appeal filed with his office by Hussain and Lefkowitz...
...case has attracted an extraordinary amount of media coverage because of dramatic courtroom testimony given by witnesses and because of the unusually light sentences the guilty doctors received. Sherry added to the circus-like excitement surrounding the various trials when he disappeared temporarily this summer, only to reemerge arguing that he should not be jailed because of a health condition. Finally, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan recently became involved in the rape trial when he denied a personal appeal filed with his office by Hussain and Lefkowitz...