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...cipher has spoken. Nearly 40 years after that dawn patrol, Sergeant Jenkins appeared on Wednesday before a U.S. one-day general court-martial at Camp Zama, near Tokyo. From a packed courtroom and closed-circuit viewing hall, the world got its first extended look at the soldier who came in from the cold. Jenkins seemed to be neither the treacherous turncoat the American military and some media accounts had portrayed, nor an innocent victim of abduction. Instead, the world saw a frail, fragile, frequently weeping old man who was, back in that day in 1965, a scared, drunk, tired...
Forget Desperate Housewives. This week's juiciest backbiting scenes may come from a Delaware courtroom, where former Disney president and fallen über-agent MICHAEL OVITZ, near left, is expected to testify. Shareholders are suing Disney's board, claiming the 1995 hiring of Ovitz and his dismissal 14 months later by Disney CEO MICHAEL EISNER cost the company up to $200 million. The plaintiffs allege Disney could have fired Ovitz for lying (a charge his spokesman calls "hearsay and gossip") and denied him his $140 million severance. In an internal memo read in court last week, Eisner called Ovitz, once...
Those close to Pring-Wilson and Colono delivered emotional statements before the sentencing that left half the people packed into the courtroom sniffling and wiping their eyes. The rest sat solemnly pondering Colono’s death and Pring-Wilson’s crime...
...CourtTV’s decision to broadcast the trial live was—to some extent—a coincidence borne out of the Bryant case’s dismissal. But some legal experts say that the presence of cameras in the courtroom can have far-reaching effects on the conduct of high-profile cases...
...Simpson case “has very much colored people’s perceptions of cameras in the courtroom,” says CNN legal analyst Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82. But Toobin, a former Crimson editorial board chair, says that in general courtroom cameras do not alter the proceedings. “People tend to forget that they’re there and tend to conduct themselves normally,” he says...