Word: courtroom
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...courtroom-melodrama ending ruins any hope of "Dolores" being a great movie. Not only is it unbelievable, but it is so cheesy that one wonders whether or not director Taylor Hackford spliced in an out-take from "The Player," a movie that makes delicious fun of such trite Hollywood endings...
Psychiatrists agree that facing the assailant is not just a symbolic act but also strong medicine for victims. "In the courtroom the tables are potentially turned," says Dr. Stuart Kleinman, medical director of the Victims' Services Agency in New York City. "You can take action that makes you the powerful one, and that tends to counteract feelings of helplessness and can be very therapeutic." Kleinman describes a 45-year-old man who recently came to him with insomnia and feelings of overwhelming rage after having been severely beaten in his office by a gun-wielding intruder. After speaking...
...there anything, other than the passage of time, that can ease their pain? Some 30 miles east of Montclair, in a courtroom in Mineola, New York, survivors of another mass killing tried last week to deal with their anger in an unusual way: confronting their attacker. Two dozen people who sustained injuries or lost relatives in the so-called Long Island Rail Road massacre came to have their say at the sentencing of Colin Ferguson, the man convicted of murdering six riders and wounding 19 on a commuter train in December 1993. "The fear and pain I felt I will...
Sentencing used to be a solemn affair. But the new let-the-victims-speak policy has produced some dramatic face-offs. In a New York City courtroom last January, Rose Falcone, the mother of an 18-year-old who was murdered during the carjacking of his Jeep, was permitted to address the killer, Edward Summers. "I just want to ask you," said Falcone, her voice taut with rage, "why didn't you just take the Jeep? Why? Why?" Said prosecutor William Mooney: "She seemed like a great weight had been lifted from her shoulders...
...Simpson murder trial provided armchair lawyers with a week of high courtroom drama as Detective Mark Fuhrman coolly parried defense attorney F. Lee Bailey's taunting cross-examination. Fuhrman repeatedly denied having made racist statements; he also denied suggestions that he planted a bloody glove on Simpson's estate to frame the football hero. The high stakes prompted Bailey and prosecutor Marcia Clark to trade playground-ready insults, leading Judge Lance Ito to ask for an apology from each attorney and to order them not to "engage in gratuitous personal attacks upon each other." At week's end yet another...