Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gavigan is just one victim of a troubling psychological phenomenon that is harming patients, devastating families, influencing new legislation, taking up courtroom time, stirring fierce controversy among experts and intensifying a backlash against all mental-health practitioners: the "recovery" -- usually while in therapy -- of repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, satanic rituals and other bizarre incidents...
...middle of his war against the nation's traditional views on suicide, Jack Kevorkian -- Dr. Death -- has been taken prisoner. The 65-year-old retired pathologist was hauled into a Detroit courtroom last Friday to face charges of violating a new Michigan law that makes assisting suicides a crime. He went limp rather than post bond and had to be dragged out by the arms, his legs scraping the floor. "I won't eat," he vowed. Like a one-man Greek chorus, his lawyer intoned, "We are now beginning the death watch...
...years later to the day, Huberty's widow walked into a California courtroom armed with a lawsuit and an explanation for her husband's crime. She claimed it was neither her husband nor the guns that were responsible for the mass murder. Instead, Huberty said that McDonald's and the food it serves triggered her husband's madness and, therefore, she was entitled to $5 million in damages...
...times the movie's antics and silliness get repetitive and infantile, as when, in the same courtroom scene, Ned continually hurls new evidence at the bailiff as if it were a football. The movie also disappointingly borrows certain "Naked Gun" gimmicks, like having Ned's hair freeze in the direction the wind blew it during a car ride...
JURORS ARE ONLY HUMAN. This was the question that had Los Angeles in an uproar. In a community exhausted by 2 1/2 years of strife since Rodney King's arrest, jurors reached their conclusions under the influence of a number of forces inside and outside the courtroom. Were they scared? Were they moved by a desire to bring events to a close by meting out a punishment for Denny's attackers comparable to the one for King's? A day after the trial ended, one juror denied that anxiety about the potential aftermath of their decision influenced the verdict...