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Knox's father, former Macy's executive Curt Knox, was in the courtroom, following the testimony with the help of an interpreter. "I'm very happy," he told TIME at the end of the day. "She's done a fantastic job. She has cleared up a lot of questions; for example, Why did she turn off her cell phone that night? She turned off her cell phone because she didn't want to get called back to work that night. She has nothing to hide...
...Moderate on the Bench Although Sotomayor's speeches raise legitimate questions about her views on essential race and gender differences, the best evidence that she is no radical multiculturalist in the courtroom is found in her judicial opinions. Here she appears to be an incrementalist rather than a radical of any stripe. In a survey of Sotomayor's 226 majority opinions, Stefanie Lindquist, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, found that only 38% could clearly be characterized as liberal, while 49% could clearly be considered conservative. When the criminal cases (in which appellate judges are encouraged...
...shutter the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, moved a step forward on June 9, when the first detainee to face trial in a U.S. civilian court arrived in New York. Wearing blue prison garb, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani made a brief appearance in a crowded Manhattan courtroom, pleading not guilty to hundreds of charges related to the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and his alleged al-Qaeda ties. Ghailani, a Tanzanian believed to be 35 years old, is accused of scouting the American embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, assembling bomb materials and escorting...
...First wanted to be a police officer after reading the Nancy Drew mystery stories but was told her diabetes might prevent fulfilling that dream. Later settled on becoming a judge after watching Perry Mason episodes, noting the judge was the most powerful person in the courtroom...
...want anybody aspiring to what they see on the screen." - Her warning to participants of a 1996 court case involving the family of a lawyer who died of AIDS. The family claimed the makers of the film Philadelphia stole their story. The movie had been screened in the courtroom earlier...