Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reassuring to know that this procedure took place in New York rather than California, where Jones lives. If the surgery does happen to result in litigation, the medical-malpractice attorney who defends the surgeon would presumably not be William Ginsburg of Los Angeles. Seeing Ginsburg and Jones in a courtroom together would have made many of us feel that we're watching the last act of a very long play we hadn't intended to go to in the first place...
...skirmishing between Ken Starr and Bill Clinton reached its highest pitch yet, the independent counsel won the right to question someone who was at Clinton's side at virtually every moment of the Bosnia trip: Secret Service special agent Larry Cockell, the President's bodyguard. After a series of courtroom victories that largely swept away the notion of a "protective privilege" shielding Secret Service agents from having to testify about what they saw or heard while on duty, Starr is free to ask Cockell if he knows anything that contradicts the President's testimony. Cockell is expected to go before...
...Susan McDougal finally gets something to take her mind off of Ken Starr when she enters a California courtroom for the opening of her trial over charges she embezzled $150,000 from conductor Zubin Mehta...
...courtroom drama was swift and efficient. After a two-week murder trial, jurors deliberated for less than six hours and emerged with a guilty verdict, putting a killer behind bars for life. Case closed. Thus was textbook justice meted out last week in Los Angeles, when jurors convicted Mikail Markhasev, 19, of fatally shooting Ennis Cosby, venerable entertainer Bill's only son, while he was changing a flat tire on Jan. 16, 1997. The Cosby family issued a brief statement saying it was "satisfied" with the outcome. Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti stood outside the Santa Monica courthouse beaming...
...Washington courtroom was crowded and tense as the prosecutor bored in on Latrena Pixley, a young mother who sat emotionless on the witness stand. "You carried your first child for nine months, held him in your arms and then gave him away. You carried your second child for nine months, held him in your arms, and you haven't seen him for six years. You carried your third child for nine months, held her in your arms and then killed her. Right?" Pixley looked up blankly, paused and answered...