Word: courtroom
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...that children were at particular risk to exposure to smut online--TIME's controversial "cyberporn" cover story last summer notwithstanding. In a kind of Socratic online safari, the judges spent weeks learning their way around the Net. Guided by experts who brought computers and an Internet connection into the courtroom, they searched for online porn and tested software that allows parents to screen out offensive material. They finally concluded that whatever danger was posed for kids by the presence of "indecent" offerings online was best addressed by parents or teachers. Obscenity and child pornography, the judges noted, are already illegal...
...last week. In the fraud-and-conspiracy trial brought by Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, a jury in Little Rock returned 24 guilty verdicts against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Clinton's former partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim and Susan McDougal. After nine weeks of dry courtroom exposition, the jury essentially concluded that the defendants had used McDougal's savings and loan as a private cookie jar, dipping into it for bogus loans to bankroll their many business schemes. Clinton wasn't a defendant in the case (merely a witness for the defense), and most jurors said...
...scene decked out in white tie and tails. In Meet John Doe, Gary Cooper battles the fascistic schemes of the super-rich Edward Arnold, who is seen in an elegant dining room complete with tuxedo and cigar. In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Cooper must defend himself against a courtroom full of slickly dressed, high-priced, big-city lawyers. In It's a Wonderful Life, Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey learns that without his good heart and small-town values, the whole town of Bedford Falls would have fallen to the corrupt greed of Mr. Potter...
...three days, Susan and Anthony Provenzino sat grim-faced in the paneled courtroom of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, their emotions ricocheting between anger, bewilderment and remorse as they pleaded for understanding. Pressed by city attorney Robert Ihrie to explain why they had supported the release of their son Alex, 16, from juvenile custody last summer, even though he had committed several burglaries and attacked his father with a golf club, Susan snapped, "I didn't want him in a youth home with murderers and rapists." Had she sought counseling for Alex? "I couldn't force him to go," Susan said...
...could not have been easy for Bernhard Goetz, left--dubbed the "subway gunman" by New York City tabloids--to hear himself referred to in a courtroom as "a nerd, a geek, a peckerwood and a cracker." The author of these epithets: Goetz's own lawyer, Darnay Hoffman, right, pursuing the tactic of insulting one's client before the opposition can. It didn't work: a jury found Goetz liable to the tune of $43 million in the civil lawsuit growing out of his gunning down of four menacing panhandlers in 1984. Other examples of "Don't say that about...