Word: courtroom
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Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz, appellate counsel for Mike Tyson, and Assistant Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, who represented Anita Hill in front of the U.S. Senate last fall, addressed a crowd of 400 in Ames Courtroom Wednesday...
...Given the power relations in our society we have a long way to go before a woman can come into a courtroom and get a fair trial," Ogletree said...
Anita F. Hill, whose testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last October put Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination in jeopardy, discussed sexual harassment before an audience of more than 200 people in Ames Courtroom at the Law School last night...
...expression of America's divided conscience. But on the ground, the confrontation had all the emotional subtlety of a tantrum and the animation of a trench-warfare standoff. It left Buffalo lost between two realities. On the television screen, the city served up all the passion and props that courtroom terms like "strict scrutiny" and "compelling interest" cannot deliver. In the Buffalo area, however, the clinics were not closed down, traffic was hardly disrupted, and citizens focused on the 28 homicides this year and the $70 million deficit projected for next. "This performance seems out of place, out of synch...
Before the Harvard student and his lawyer walked into the courtroom, a number of people approached the bench and explained to the judge that they did not have the $40 in court fees because they were unemployed. Most of those sitting in the rows of the courtroom had to wait to be called for a good part...