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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unless both of these things occur, Israel's Supreme Court should grant Demjanjuk's appeal--regardless of how unpopular such a decision might be among Israelis, hundreds of whom crammed the movie-theater-turned-courtroom last May to applaud Demjanjuk's death sentence and rhythmically chant, "Death, death, death...The people of Israel live...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Ivan the Terrible or Dreyfus? | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

North's wife, Betsy, was escorted to her seat in the packed courtroom by security guards midway through Keker's opening statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North Attacked as Iran-Contra Trial Opens | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

Criminal trials used to have four main components: defendant, attorneys, judge and jury. Now they have a fifth: writers, eager to make a killing of their own. The more notorious the case nowadays, the longer seems the line of authors in and around the courtroom, armed with notebooks and contracts. Last year's "preppie murder" trial of Robert Chambers for strangling Jennifer Levin in New York City's Central Park, for example, will soon yield Wasted, a book by Linda Wolfe (The Professor and the Prostitute). The Tawana Brawley affair has inspired a team of six New York Times reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out To Make Killings | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

From the trial's opening statements, aspiring authors jockeyed for space on courtroom benches. Joyce Johnson, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, began work on What Lisa Knew. Free-lance writer Maury Terry launched into The Dark Side of 10th Street. Sam Erlich, a fellow free lance, undertook Lisa, Hedda, Joel. Marie Winn, author of a television critique, The Plug-In Drug, jotted notes for an untitled book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out To Make Killings | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...Justice Department, reflecting concerns of U.S. intelligence agencies, believes that Gesell has imposed inadequate controls on North and that the fired National Security Council aide would be permitted to pour out secrets in the courtroom that are damaging to national security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North's Trial Will Go Ahead As Planned | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

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