Word: courtroom
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...Bangkok courtroom, Thaksin and his family sat with somber expressions throughout proceedings as the judge reprimanded Pojaman, saying that her high economic, social and political status should have compelled her to set a better example for society. The family had been greeted by about 2,000 supporters when they arrived at the Criminal Court building...
...litany of rogues who once boasted of their impunity but later ended up in the dock is surprisingly long, and each has been rapidly emasculated by his fall. A few years ago, I visited the Hague courtroom where former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was being tried. Unlike when he had engineered the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and forced more than 2 million Bosnians from their homes, Milosevic was not in charge. As he ramped up his rant against the judges to a fever pitch, the judge simply turned off Milosevic's microphone, leaving him gesticulating wildly and foolishly but emitting...
...left him a shell of a man. He has deteriorated mentally to the point where he can no longer meaningfully assist in his own criminal defense. He is suicidal, hears voices inside his head and talks to himself. And yet his trial, which is taking place in a small courtroom at Guantánamo Bay, will still influence the future of the tribunal system. Under the rules of the tribunal, Hamdan faces a jury of military officers who will decide his innocence or guilt. Whether their decision is perceived as fair will go a long way toward determining...
...silence during the trial was the problem. After the jurors announced that R. Kelly was innocent of all 14 child pornography charges, five of them spoke to reporters in the Cook County courtroom and said it was that very absence of testimony from the woman, or even her parents, that significantly swayed their decision. A middle-aged black man dressed in a striped blue polo shirt said he had been convinced by the evidence that it was indeed R. Kelly who appeared in the 27-minute sex video. In fact, the man said, he was prepared to cast a guilty...
...deputy walked from the judge's chambers and commanded the court, "All rise." Kelly, dressed in a dark blue suit, white shirt and shimmering yellow tie, took a deep breath. He bowed his head, with freshly tightened cornrows, and looked at the ground. There was silence in the courtroom. He reached for the hands of his two defense attorneys. He looked straight ahead. At 2:04p.m., the judge began reading off each count. Finally, Kelly looked to the stand. "Not guilty," the judge's assistant began, reading each count. Kelly looked down, closed his eyes. "Thank you Jesus, thank...