Word: courtroom
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Attending Witness for the Prosecution is about as fun as serving jury duty. In this faithful production of Agatha Christie's humdrum courtroom drama, the audience is asked to sit through a lengthy and primarily uneventful murder trial. Similar to real-life jury duty, the brightest moment of the play comes in the end when a verdict is announced and the plot, finally, twists...
...time Joey Buttafuoco was sentenced to six months in prison for having sex with the teenage girl who later shot his wife, most Americans were probably sick to death of the Amy Fisher story. But for the syndicated magazine show A Current Affair, the courtroom denouement launched the tabloid- TV equivalent of Super Bowl week. When the sentence was announced, the show had cameras at the Buttafuoco home to monitor wife Mary Jo's reaction. When Joey was hauled off to jail, correspondent Steve Dunleavy was there to debrief him. Husband and wife were interviewed separately throughout the week, then...
...atmosphere of rumor and speculation, no one was immune from passing on misinformation. A day after the fired guards filed suit in L.A., Fields was in a Santa Monica courtroom seeking a six-year postponement of the civil suit that started off the current saga. Fields let slip that because a grand jury in Santa Barbara was considering a criminal indictment in the same case (leveled by a 13-year-old boy who says the entertainer sexually abused him), the civil suit should be put on hold lest Jackson inadvertently incriminate himself during the proceedings. The other lawyer...
Outside the courtroom yesterday, Dowling wasasked if the guards had done a good job patrollingthe Law School...
...from their homelands. But business as usual in the old country can be a felony in the U.S.; conventional child-rearing practices there, for example, might be considered child abuse here. One result of the rising immigrant tide is the increasing use of "the cultural defense" -- legal shorthand for courtroom attempts to explain the actions of foreign-born defendants by invoking the mores and taboos of their native countries. Defense attorneys use the tactic in two major ways: to persuade prosecutors to reduce charges and to encourage judges to exercise leniency at sentencing...