Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mormon who has closely followed the legal maneuverings between NOW and Judge Callister. The outcome of the ERA extension-recision cases was determined by the male Mormon hierarchy from the day the case showed up in Callister's courtroom...
Silence fell over the Manhattan courtroom where Abbott is on trial on a charge of murdering Adan, 22, a waiter and an aspiring playwright, last July-a bare six weeks after Abbott had been released from prison on the urging of Novelist Norman Mailer. Not a cough sounded as Abbott, 37, gave some grisly details of the aftermath of the 5 a.m. stabbing outside the Bini-Bon restaurant where Adan had worked. Adan, Abbott related, "said, 'You didn't have to kill me.' He started going backward. From his face he looked like he was dead...
...balanced treatment" law and ended the first legal round in the bristling new battle between Fundamentalists on one side and an alliance of scientists, educators, clergy and civil libertarians on the other. Overton dismissed virtually all the week-long testimony that creationists had presented in his Little Rock courtroom last month...
What follows is a kind of courtroom trial in which Davenport interrogates everyone and reconstructs the crime in flashback. The flashback is a tell-and-show device. It can be used with fluid emotional mastery, as Arthur Miller used it in Death of a Salesman; here it seems more like a dry studied exercise on a schoolroom blackboard...
...atmosphere in the Pretoria courtroom last week was hardly serious. The five defendants, decked out in colorful beach shirts and khakis, smiled and waved to security policemen as they appeared briefly in the dock to be freed on bail. They had good reason to be happy. Despite international anger, the South African government opted to deal lightly, almost casually, with their crime: the hijacking of an Air India jetliner the previous week, after an abortive attempt to overthrow the socialist government of Seychelles...