Word: courtroom
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Michael Jackson's trial began last week with testimony from the accuser's sister and others, who launched the prosecution's case that Jackson molested a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Ranch. And courtroom watchers got their first good look at the legal teams that are set to clash...
...police watchdog groups don’t want to risk the possibility hat The Crimson’s lawsuit and its attempt to gain access to these reports won’t survive its appeal. Instead, they are pushing for increased access to crime information themselves, foregoing the courtroom drama for parliamentary procedure...
...eager buyers appeared distracted. He was nonplussed, like a sergeant whose troops had fallen out without an order to do so. For a long moment in that cavernous mall in Texas, Powell seemed to be the only person in America who was unaware of what was happening in a courtroom in Los Angeles...
...prove Mitterrand's point, the movie opens this week in a France that seems more awash than ever in the ambiguous legacy of its last Socialist President. Mitterrand's image dominated a Parisian courtroom last week as it finished taking testimony about a vast wiretapping scheme driven in part by Mitterrand's personal obsessions. His illness, first diagnosed in 1981, the year he took power, resurfaces in lurid detail this week in a book - written by his personal doctor, Claude Gubler - originally banned by a French court in 1996 for breaching the President's medical privacy. His foreign policy, often...
...None of the East Timorese judges had any courtroom experience when they were appointed, and the fledgling judicial system has been plagued by delays and claims by ngos of poor decision-making. The President of the Court of Appeal, Claudio Ximenes, who, as president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, announced the evaluation results on Jan. 25, says they didn't surprise him: he knew "from the cases coming to the Court of Appeal that they were not skilled...