Word: courtroom
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Though judges are more vulnerable outside the security of the courtroom, they can no longer feel totally safe while sitting on the bench. Last August Lindsay Arthur, 64, senior district judge in Minneapolis, was presiding at the arraignment of Richard Martin, 32. Suddenly, Martin tried to escape. Finding the exit blocked, he headed for Arthur. Martin punched the judge in the face, drawing blood and sending him sprawling. Last year in a Chicago courtroom, Defendant Wayne Ellis grabbed a revolver from a policeman's holster, aimed it at Judge William Prendergast and pulled the trigger three times. Fortunately...
...effort to combat courtroom attacks, the U.S. Marshals Service and other security forces are trying everything from metal detectors and alarm systems to bomb-sniffing dogs. A San Francisco courtroom custom-designed for sensational trials has bullet-resistant glass between the spectators and the court. A few judges in places like Fort Lauderdale and Kansas City, however, have begun taking the law into their own hands. In Old West style, they show up for work packing pistols...
...Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall, once the Law School library reading room, and the site of the annual Ames moot court finals since 1954, has been completely renovated at a cost of almost $300,000, officials said yesterday...
...month long renovations, which ended last week, will enable fuller and more flexible use of the room both as a classroom and as a courtroom for the Middlesex Superior Court, George Oomen, special assistant to the vice-president for administration, said yesterday...
...hunter and the hunted finally came face to face last month in a Manhattan courtroom. Nodding toward Majeski, Abbott asked: "Who's he?" There was electricity in the air when he heard the name Majeski. "Yeah," Abbott said coldly, "I know him." They will see each other again early next year, when Jack Abbott goes on trial for murder...