Word: courtroom
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...Padilla's path from the brig to a Miami courtroom has been riddled with fits and starts. On June 11 in New York (where he had first been held), the ACLU filed a petition for Padilla's release, arguing that as an American citizen captured on U.S. soil, he had to be let go or charged and tried in a civilian court. In December 2003, a federal appeals court in New York agreed, but then the government dodged a bullet: the Supreme Court ruled that Padilla's petition should have been filed in South Carolina, not New York...
...with handguns and automatic weapons, then surrounded the majestic pink-stone building of the Sindh High Court where the Chief Justice had been expected to address the legal fraternity. The mob attacked anyone wearing black trousers, a white shirt and a black jacket - the dress code of Pakistan's courtroom lawyers...
...yelled. According to the students, they were also not given a warning before they were removed from the forum, which would represent a breach of free speech guidelines approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1990. The rapid dismissal left the students pleased as they exited the courtroom. “I am happy that it ended so quickly and relatively painlessly,” Lee said. “I really do think that it was all the media attention and community support that got it to end so quickly.” Provost said that while...
...rapid dismissal left the students momentarily shell-shocked as they exited the courtroom...
...city's parks are parched, its riverside pubs and cafés packed. Londoners are enjoying the weather, but some detect in its unusual generosity the hidden curse of global warming. A similar pessimism greeted the life sentences handed out on the last day of April in a sticky courtroom to five British-raised terrorists for their involvement in a conspiracy to commit mass murder. The branch of the U.K.'s security service known as MI5 foiled the plot before any blood was spilled, but its success cloaks a tragic failure. That, at least, is the judgment of Britain...