Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...justice for society's outsiders, he is himself the consummate insider, with a roster of clients that have included Michael Jackson, Snoop Doggy Dogg and former Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown, and a circle of friends who are among the most politically connected in all Los Angeles. His courtroom charisma, however, cannot be copied, much less mocked. He holds a jury rapt and disarms opposing counsel with his smooth, unflappable charm. He works himself and his associates as if they have just got the ball with only seconds to spare. Though his client may or may not have...
Inside a packed Seoul courtroom, former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo took the stand Monday to answer charges that he accepted $369 million in kickbacks from businesses while in office. Roh admitted that he took money from chaebol, the group of 40 or so huge industrial conglomerates that dominate South Korea's economy, but said that he did not sell his influence to private interests. Roh said he received $32 million from Samsung, the nation's biggest conglomerate, but maintained he could not remember who gave him all the money he received while in office. The trial is expected...
Scalpers have been the biggest winners so far at the trial, asking, and getting, $300 a ticket for one of the 80 seats in the courtroom...
...ordered the removal of U.S. District Judge Wayne Alley from the Oklahoma City bombing case to avoid any appearance of partiality. The defense had objected to Alley because the explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building had slightly injured one of his staff members and damaged Alley's courtroom and chambers, located in a nearby building...
...SOUTH AFRICA, DOUBTS REmain about the degree to which the white minority has truly been rooted out of power. Last week there was more evidence that it has been, as former Defense Minister Magnus Malan and 19 other former military leaders and security officials stood in a Durban courtroom, where they were charged with murder. The indictment did not claim that all the men were present on the night in 1987 when 13 people, including seven children, were shot to death in a Zulu village. But it accuses them of "planning, training, authorizing and funding" the secret squad of gunmen...