Word: courtroom
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What was happening inside the courtroom was even more outrageous. In his opening statement, Trodden pointed to Albert and told the jury that "a coarse and crude abuse of a human being took place...at the hands of that man." The prosecutor went on to reveal that Albert liked three-way sex and wore "ladies' underwear." Defense attorney Black in his statement portrayed the accuser as a troubled woman who sought revenge on his client because he was going to marry someone else. Black said she "collects" celebrities, pointing out that she once claimed to have had a "relationship" with...
Representatives of the CFA at the University of Alabama, Birmingham were involved in the protests over local Judge Roy Moore's posting the Ten Commandments on the walls of his courtroom...
...Professor William James had written...and which I'd fought my way through...") Teddy Roosevelt, as before, is a bully minor character, though here he is Assistant Secretary of the Navy, not New York City police commissioner. And in a brilliant bit of historical casting, Clarence Darrow, a rising courtroom wizard from Chicago, turns up to confound the good guys and defend the villain at a tense upstate New York murder trial...
...must declare her sane, a judgment that would have seemed as mushy at the beginning of the Freudian era as it does now. For a long stretch of chapters, the trial seizes the story, and Kreizler, who is not a lawyer, can't take it back. A good courtroom drama, always welcome but not uncommon, floods the author's rare and fascinating tunneling into the beginnings of psychiatry...
Your article on the silicone-breast-implant trial in Louisiana [LAW, Sept. 1] raised a number of important issues about the role of science in the courtroom, but the use of the word Dow in the article was misleading. Dow Chemical and Dow Corning are separate corporate entities, and Dow Chemical is not the "parent company" of Dow Corning. Rather, Dow Chemical and Corning Inc. are each 50% shareholders in Dow Corning, which formerly made breast implants. Dow Chemical is not now and never has been in the breast-implant business. It is also important to note that the Louisiana...