Word: courtroom
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Months of testimony culminated yesterday in the acquittal of O.J. Simpson in the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. And as Simpson thanked members of the jury in the Los Angeles courtroom for their verdict, much of Harvard's legal community reacted with outrage...
Second year law student Richard Perez, who said he was leaning away from courtroom law before the Simpson trial, said watching the ordeal helped him make up his mind...
...world of sports went on. And although what happened back on the sports pages is hardly life and death many sweet and bitter moments have been played out on diamonds, courts and fields across the country. While perhaps sometimes overshadowed by events in the courtroom, it has been a memorable 16 months in the sports world...
...enforcement, one of the few careers in which you are seldom praised for doing a good job. After putting in the long, tedious hours, after experiencing the gut-wrenching fear of another dangerous arrest, and after completing mountains of paperwork, it is disheartening to go into the courtroom and see the now clean-shaven defendant, wearing a suit and tie, walk out with a slap on the wrist. In U.S. society now everyone is a victim, and no one is responsible. Police work, just like every other profession, has its share of questionable people. Where money, power and greed...
...communities, may spend the rest of the decade in jail. "You threw it away," Judge Fred Suria told the two-term Democrat today after sentencing him to five years for having sex with an underage campaign worker and for soliciting child pornography. Reynolds had just completed a 40-minute courtroom rant in which he blamed racism and the media for his downfall. Replied Suria: "This case is not about race. This case is not about politics...