Word: courtroom
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...military wing of the P.L.O. Under the terms of the peace agreement signed by Israel and the P.L.O., Captain Abdel-Kader is one of hundreds of Palestinian soldiers training in Jordan and Egypt for police duty in soon-to- be-autonomous Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Lectures on courtroom law and fingerprinting may seem banal for men who until last month dreamed of military victory against Israel, but Abdel-Kader is ebullient. "Going to Palestine," he says, "is more exciting than jumping out of a plane for the first time...
...same witnesses to tell the same stories in two successive trials, the brothers are being tried simultaneously before two separate juries. The juries listen to the same evidence, except when testimony concerns only one brother. Then, the jury that will decide the fate of the other leaves the courtroom...
Today Abouhalima and three colleagues sit quietly in Courtroom 318 in downtown Manhattan, six blocks from the Twin Towers, watching intently as their lawyers and the prosecutors joust over the selection of jurors. So prominent is the case that U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy rounded up 5,000 citizens in his effort to assemble an unbiased jury -- 10 times the number called for last year's sensational trial of Mob chieftain John Gotti. Opening arguments in the bombing case are expected to begin next week. The trial will probably take three to four months, all the while under heavy security...
...True friendship is never serene." Thus wrote Marie de Rabutin-Chantal--whoever she is--in 1671. Friendship is the rough average between a courtroom trial and a self-affirmation tape, the middle ground between the disinterested search of truth and maternal caring. that middle ground is full of heated arguments that get really personal. Friendship is that place where it is painful to tell the truth and hear the truth, but where you also know that the truth is the best thing for everybody involved. Friends point out each other's hypocrisies and get past the resentment that comes...
...targeted more than 200 prps (potentially responsible parties), including McDonnell Douglas, Rockwell International, Northrop Corp. and Weyerhaeuser. In the early stages of the legal battle in the mid-1980s, Riverside County lacked a courthouse that could accommodate the burgeoning stream of lawyers. An old building was converted to a courtroom just to house them. Although a number of corporate defendants have settled with plaintiffs, the site has never been cleaned up; it still contains a residue of 34 million gal. of toxic waste...