Word: courtroom
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...Despite having shamed the large pharmaceutical companies into backing out of a courtroom battle to protect their patents in the face of an unprecedented humanitarian tragedy, it is simple economics that guides South Africa's refusal to supply drugs that could save millions of lives...
...however familiar the scene, the criminals in Judge Colleen McNally's courtroom have little to fear. They are first offenders, convicted of possessing drugs for personal use--not of dealing--and, as such, benefit from a groundbreaking Arizona statute barring their imprisonment. McNally's sentences are about rehabilitation, even repentance. Part shrink, part scold, McNally rules with revivalist fervor. "You're going to get a lot out of this journey," she tells a woman sentenced to counseling and urine testing. The audience is invited to clap--and they do so, loudly--as she praises a man who has stayed clean...
...that day in her courtroom, McNally sent the sometime meth user back to his forklift and the mechanic and recovering cocaine addict back to his three kids. The pot-smoking teenager trailed behind his mother. Says the judge: "When somebody's threatening to throw you in jail, it doesn't feel like they care about you. Now there's a different attitude." And it is showing results...
...words rose and fell over the courtroom, hard to make out, yet clear enough at times to send looks of chilled surprise among the spellbound spectators: "...nigger...bomb...mother-f----' church... .bomb...plan...bomb...
...tapes, Blanton boasts, "I was on the corner watching the big blast." As he listened in the Birmingham courtroom to the nearly four-decades-old recording, Burns removed his glasses and wiped at his eyes...