Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there a reason why you wouldn't tell the truth if your father did touch you?" asks Purnell, trying to unmask the apparent cover-up. Tracy says no. Suddenly, Master Walker's loud voice booms across the courtroom. "She's giving more signals than a third-base coach for the Boston Red Sox," Walker says, gesturing toward the girl's mother. He has been watching her coach Tracy from the bench nearby...
...argument, which is rooted in the knowledge that closed-door trials are Stalinist stuff. Abuses of justice breed easily when nobody knows that the judges are doing. Keeping trials open and public does not ensure that convictions and acquittals will not be based on arbitrary whim. Without reporting on courtroom activities, the guardians of justice are themselves unguarded...
...year when real-life courtroom drama became the stuff of TV entertainment, a Supreme Court nominee's droning confirmation process was suddenly transformed into a riveting version of Rashomon. On one side was the composed college professor charging sexual harassment; on the other the outraged judge crying racism; in the jury box, a gaggle of Senators fumbling. After this and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, how can anybody watch L.A. Law again...
...year when real-life courtroom drama became the stuff of TV entertainment, a Supreme Court nominee's droning confirmation process was suddenly transformed into a riveting version of Rashomon. On one side was the composed college professor charging sexual harassment; on the other the outraged judge crying racism; in the jury box, a gaggle of Senators fumbling. After this and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, how can anybody watch L.A. Law again...
Terry Anderson is talking now, but Furnad's main concern is the West Palm Beach courtroom, where testimony is resuming. "C'mon, Terry, speed it up," he urges. At 4:20 Anderson finally finishes. Turn on the anchor's mike ("He's leaving! Talk, Lou!"), cut to a commercial, then back to the trial. Only seven minutes of the accuser's testimony has been missed; her emotional account of the incident is yet to come. Count it another CNN success...