Word: courtroom
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...tempting to believe, with match-fixing exposed and the image of Cronje's courtroom breakdown burned on the memory, that no player would dare give a bookmaker the time, let alone his team's batting order. "Money makes people do silly things," says Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak, who adds that young players can feel compelled to follow even the worst example of their captain. (South Africans Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams were suspended for accepting money from Cronje to play poorly in a one-day match against India last year...
Even at its most decorous and solemn, the law has its limits, and they were on stark display last week. Within the walls of the courtroom at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, legal reasoning held sway as presiding judge Lord Ranald Sutherland issued the unanimous verdicts of a three-judge panel in the trial of two Libyans for mass murder. The decisions were the culmination of more than 12 years of anguished activism by family members, and almost a decade of diplomatic wrangling to secure the defendants and set the unique location and parameters of the trial. They were based...
Levin's opinion provoked outrage from lawyers and editorialists alike. "Everyone should have a level playing field when they walk into a courtroom," said JTC executive director Paul Fischer. "How can it be fair when the judge is sleeping with one of the attorneys?" Said New York University legal ethicist Stephen Gillers: "There's no way of soft-pedaling Chrzanowski's conduct, no way of defending it.'' Wrote the Detroit Free Press: "There's surely something wrong with a system that can't hold [Chrzanowski] accountable." The judge's supporters are few. In her own defense, Chrzanowski released a statement...
...familiar scene: A man in his mid-30s waits outside a courtroom, his eyes dull, his posture slack. An attorney sits nearby, trying to ignite some optimism in his client - maybe it won't be so bad - but the man knows better. He knows because he's already tested the system so many times. He's been arrested with cocaine, heroin, marijuana, not to mention various and sundry pills. He knows he's betrayed pledges to get clean, and turned his back on years of rehab. Now it's time for him to pay his debt to society once again...
...intelligence community obviously weighs the value of securing a conviction against the value of keeping in place someone who is cooperating with the U.S. And they almost always tend towards keeping them in place until they've exhausted their usefulness, before sending them into a courtroom...