Word: courtroom
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...might expect that once celebrity has quitted the courtroom, we could find solace in the lurid details of Susan Smith's infanticide. But no. A South Carolina judge has ruled that there will be no cameras in the courtroom, thus denying Americans from sea to shining sea the opportunity to relive those brutal moments straight from the alleged killer's tear-stained testimony (and all in convenient 30-second sound bites...
Jurors in theO.J. Simpson trialsat through day 100 of courtroom testimony. As theprosecutionwinds up its case, TIME's Elaine Lafferty assesses the trial so far: "There have been surprises, most recently the prosecution's decision to cut short testimony by several weeks. Now we'll see whether the defense thinks the glove that didn't fit was enough to convince the jury that O.J. is innocent. If so, they will try to keep their presentation short."The defensemay want to hurry for another reason as well. If jurors continue being dismissed at the rate of one every 10 days...
...demure, 34-year-old actor, best known as the lead in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," invited a "known prostitute" into his car in the wee hours and was later "observed to be engaged in an act of lewd conduct." He's due in a Los Angeles courtroom to face a misdemeanor charge July...
...Cage, located right in Courtroom D in the Connecticut Superior Court in Bridgeport, functions as a temporary jail cell for men who haven't made bond. The dozen men held inside, their hands shackled behind them, were arrested over the weekend and are awaiting arraignment; new detainees are herded in and out all day. In the midst of this noise and mayhem, some of the accused meet their lawyers for the last time before approaching the bench and confer hastily through the metal mesh about their pleas. Though the state affiliate of the A.C.L.U. has brought a class action against...
...year, including death-penalty cases. Two part-time lawyers share the whole load, even though the a.b.a. recommends that each public defender handle no more than 150 noncapital felonies a year. The office's entire annual budget -- and this includes lawyers' salaries and expenses -- is $32,000. Their courtroom opponents, the Jones County district attorney's office, work with a budget seven times as large, while their case load is only about 20% greater. David Ratcliff, one of the two part-time public defenders, explains that he has to do his own legwork, running down witnesses, even taking the photographs...