Word: courtroom
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...match between the Knicks and the Washington Bullets in nearby Landover, Md. In a statement, the sportscaster said the charges against him were false and that he intends to vigorously defend himself. "I am confident that I will be completely exonerated when these allegations are addressed in a public courtroom," he said. If found guilty of forcible sodomy, the 53-year-old Albert could face five years to life in prison. The assault charge carries a penalty of up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine...
...followers--implied that a duck is safe so long as it doesn't open its mouth and start making noise. It was a sound precept. And one that "the Chairman," as he is known, no doubt reflected upon during the eight weeks he spent in a Chicago federal courtroom watching the jury listen to secretly recorded conversations through which he ran his drug empire from an Illinois state prison...
...YORK CITY: Bad news for Spike Lee: Before a courtroom packed with anxious Knicks fans, a federal judge refused to reverse the suspensions of four New York Knicks involved in Wednesday's melee with the Miami Heat. After a 90 minute hearing between the NBA and the National Basketball Players' Association, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that league commissioner David Stern had complete authority to hand down the suspensions. The players claimed the NBA's decision to suspend violated the league's collective bargaining agreement, which mandates that such a rule must be negotiated with the Players' Union...
When Timothy McVeigh enters the Denver courtroom of Judge Richard Matsch, he does not behave at all as you would expect, given the rigid, blank-faced image he projected at his arrest. He usually emerges from the holding cell for defendants with a big smile. Wearing a button-down shirt and khaki pants, his hands in his pockets, he struts toward the defense table. On his way, he makes eyes at female paralegals and chats with them. He nods and grins at the press and the prosecutors. McVeigh is accused of killing 168 people, 19 of them children...
...further because they had shrouded the rest of his body. His head was crushed.? The graphic testimony had begun with a tape recording made by Cynthia Lou Klaver, an attorney who was conducting a hearing at the Water Resources Board when the bomb went off. As courtroom observers quietly listened to the first couple of minutes of tape, the droning sound of a mundane exchange was overwhelmed by the catastrophic explosion, followed by the screams of the victims and the sound of rubble falling. ?We could see things coming down on us,? Klaver said. ?We were all disoriented.? Michael Norfleet...