Word: courtroom
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...some ways, copyright holders have gained legal power over the past few years. Major courtroom battles over copyright have been fought in recent years over Napster and other music sharing and video sharing programs, and previous courts have all ruled in favor of the copyright holders...
Most of the prosecution’s questions concerned meticulous fact-finding: pointing out towns on a map, pointing out the same towns on a different map or going through details of names and geography. There was none of the made-for-television courtroom excitement. Instead, there was an hour of technical questioning...
That should be what matters. Having stories told in a legitimate courtroom and watching an authoritative judgment be delivered is a necessary step for healing...
...bellyaching, this time, would not get him off. The attorneys for Hutomo Mandala Putra (known as Tommy Suharto) insisted their client's stomach cramps and headache had kept him in his comfortable, air-conditioned cell?outfitted with a television and a stereo system?and away from the Jakarta courtroom where a five-judge panel was set to rule on whether their defendant was guilty of arranging the murder of a judge, fleeing from justice for 12 months, and possessing illegal rifles, handguns, grenades and explosives. Such was the reputation of Tommy, 40, the youngest son of former Indonesian President Suharto...
...masterminded Syafiuddin's killing, paid $11,000 to two gunmen and lent them one of his own pistols to use in the attack. (Those two were convicted of murder last February and are serving life sentences.) Tommy will likely appeal the ruling; some fear that his absence from the courtroom last week was a ploy by his lawyers to manufacture grounds for an appeal. And the sentence handed down is considerably softer than the life terms being served by his henchmen. "According to any legal logic," says Frans Hendra Winata, a Jakarta-based legal expert, "the mastermind behind the killing...