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...MEDIA More than 1,000 journalists applied for press credentials, but only seven seats in the courtroom have been reserved for reporters...
Ever since John Grisham left the courtroom for the best-seller list, publishers have been paying large sums for fictionalized legal and criminal expertise. January alone saw high-profile books from Linda Fairstein, a 25-year veteran prosecutor in Manhattan's sex-crimes unit, as well as Bill Bonanno, an ex-mobster, and Joe Pistone, a Mafia-infiltrating ex-FBI agent. But Rimington, 69, is the biggest name in law enforcement yet to give fiction a go. She began working for MI5 in 1965, when, as the wife of a British diplomat in New Delhi, she was hired...
What happened to the once seemingly inexorable march of cameras into the courtroom? The answer, most trial watchers agree, boils down to two initials: O.J. His obsessively covered 1995 trial--and the subsequent criticism of Judge Lance Ito's handling of the proceedings--has made nearly every judge presiding over a high-profile case opt for the safer, camera-free route. (One of the few recent exceptions: the sexual-abuse trial of former priest Paul Shanley.) Longtime proponents of TV in court haven't given up the fight. Henry Schleiff, CEO of Court TV (which is pursuing a lawsuit seeking...
Freddie Booker was already in trouble when he entered a federal courtroom in Madison, Wis., two years ago for a sentencing hearing. A jury had found Booker, 51, guilty of possessing 3 oz. of crack cocaine, with the intention to distribute, which meant he was facing at least 10 years in prison. But when prosecutors informed the judge that Booker had told cops after his arrest that he had previously sold more than a pound of crack, his situation quickly went from bad to worse. Because of that evidence, which was never presented to the jury, the judge had little...
...representation and denouncing ebonics ("black English"), detractors say he did little to draw attention to the health, education and criminal-justice issues that still cripple many in the black community. Laments Jerome Whyatt Mondesire, president of the group's Philadelphia chapter: "We've moved away from the grass-root courtroom battles that made us relevant to the plight of lower-income blacks...