Word: courtroom
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...spectators' gallery of a Düsseldorf courtroom erupted with shouts of "Scandal!" and "An offense against the victims!" as the sentences were read out last week to the defendants, seven men and two women, all age 60 or older. One got a life sentence; another was acquitted; the rest received jail terms ranging from three to twelve years. Thus ended the longest (5½ years), and probably the last, major West German trial for Nazi war crimes against concentration camp inmates. The nine were all guards at the Maidanek concentration camp in Poland between 1941 and 1944. They...
...received the word from God, he said, and even repeated arguments from his defense lawyers could not dissuade him. So Mark David Chapman, 26, pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom last week to the Dec. 8 murder of John Lennon. When Assistant District Attorney Allen Sullivan asked the defendant why he had used especially destructive hollow-point bullets in the shooting, Chapman laconically replied, "To ensure Lennon's death...
Stewart's retirement will round off a legal career that began virtually in infancy. As a child, Stewart would listen while his father, a Cincinnati lawyer and one-time mayor who would later serve on the Ohio Supreme Court, simultaneously shaved and rehearsed his courtroom arguments. Schooled at Hotchkiss, Yale and Yale Law School, he served as a deck officer on Navy oilers during World War II, "bored to death 99% of the time, and scared to death 1%." After three years of Wall Street he retired to Cincinnati. In 1954 Stewart was named to the U.S. Court...
...Jerry Brown, 43, could hardly cop a plea when called to spend some time in the box himself. So last week, with about 30 reporters and photographers, half a dozen plainclothesmen and several aides in tow, the California Governor became plain ole Citizen Brown and trooped into a Sacramento courtroom. Elected foreman, he announced a unanimous "not guilty" verdict on the misdemeanor charge being heard. Were his box mates hesitant to disagree with him? "No," said Sacramento Housewife Anna Holmes, 58, "I've disagreed with him before...
...convert there is always the possibility (suspicion, hope) that he sympathizes more than he lets on ? as in the anecdote Koch loves to tell of the judge who got mugged and then announced that it would have no effect on his future decisions. An old lady in the courtroom shouted...