Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense lawyer. "It doesn't matter," he said. "This is a political action, rather than a legal matter." Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the extremist Kach movement (see box), quickly came to Goodman's rescue by agreeing to pay for his defense. Goodman shouted as he left the courtroom, "Justice for national liberation!" Little was yet known about the Baltimore-born Goodman, 37, beyond reports that he had been visiting Israel off and on since 1967 and had only recently been inducted into the Israeli army. Some sources indicated that he had been expelled from Israel in 1978 after beating...
...courtroom is not the only place where drunken driving is under attack...
...effort to direct attention away from Hussain's previous conviction. Meyer has been holding the jury selection, which normally takes place in a public courtroom, in his private chambers. But the judge has allowed reported into the chambers, informally requesting that they not write about his decision to exclude jurors who are aware of Hussain's previous conviction...
Meyer denied Monday the defense's motions to bar press and public from the courtroom and a defense request to change the trial location because of alleged prejudicial publicity...
...crowded Newport courtroom, spectators gasped. "My God!" cried one. "I don't believe it." The prosecutors seemed almost as surprised; they beamed and squeezed each other's hands in celebration. "By God, we've done it," whispered Rhode Island Assistant Attorney General Stephen Famiglietti. But as Jury Foreman Barbara Connett twice pronounced the verdict "Guilty," Claus von Bülow, 55, did not even flinch. Except for a flush of bright crimson in his cheeks, he was completely impassive, as he had been throughout the nine-week trial. His urbane façade finally crumbled...