Word: courtroom
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...Since a 1991 Supreme Court ruling, the government has been allowed to call victims and their relatives to share their grief during the sentencing phase of trials, to make the victim as real and present in the courtroom as the killer is. In the sentencing of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, however, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch asserted the right to bar any victim testimony that was too emotionally loaded: "The penalty phase hearing here cannot be turned into some type of a lynching," he said...
...cultural icons are waging a courtroom battle over a fruit. Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, wants Apple Computer to remove its bitten-apple logo from its iTunes music store. A lawyer for Apple Corps, which is co-owned by Paul McCartney, RINGO STARR, George Harrison's estate and Yoko Ono, downloaded a Coldplay song from iTunes to show a London judge how Apple Computer uses its logo to sell music, in violation, the lawyer said, of a 1991 agreement that it would stay out of the music business. Apple Computer's lawyer responded that "even a moron...
...Wynne, a former prosecutor, notes that charges are often dropped to speed up jury deliberation and help jurors to focus on the crucial charges at the heart of the case. Overall, the government's case crushed the defense, Berg believes. "It was deeper and wider than anyone in that courtroom expected," he says...
...performed jihad and killed Americans! Why should I stand up in front of you?" LOUAI AL-SAKKA, alleged al-Qaeda operative who is on trial for orchestrating the 2003 Istanbul bombings, after refusing to stand to address the judge in a Turkish courtroom last week...
...event, all eyes will be on the jury instructions in the Houston courtroom. "These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars," says Enron trial analyst and Houston attorney Brian Wice. "The only law they take into the jury room is the law Judge Lake gives them...