Word: courtroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mumbai that killed about 170 people; Ansari and Sabahuddin, who are Indian, were arrested separately and are accused of helping to plan the attacks. All three of them were barefoot and wore the same clothes as they did yesterday, sitting together on a bench in one corner of the courtroom, on a raised platform behind a wooden railing. (See pictures of Mumbai picking up the pieces after the attacks...
...courtroom where Blagojevich was arraigned on Tuesday has also raised questions. U.S. District Judge James Zagel, who is presiding over the case, is a Reagan appointee generally seen as prosecutor-friendly, a no-nonsense jurist who has little patience for allowing his courtroom to be turned into a circus. Some observers wonder if Fitzgerald's team shopped around for the right judge and made sure the case landed with Zagel by marrying Blagojevich's case with that of William Cellini, 74, a downstate businessman and power broker who raised money for Blagojevich and is currently under indictment - and whose case...
...local suppliers, creditors and employees, making it tougher for those groups to file claims and otherwise participate in the case. "The autoworkers live around Detroit," says Lynn LoPucki, a law professor at UCLA. "You go to New York, and suddenly all of those workers can't sit in the courtroom." (Read "Can Detroit Be Retooled - Before It's Too Late...
...nation was watching as Chen, nicknamed the "Son of Taiwan," walked into the courtroom a much thinner man after more than two months in detention. Chen was known during his eight years in office for irritating China with his open support for a greater Taiwanese independence from the mainland. Taiwan's current President Ma Ying-jeou has moved quickly to forge closer economic ties with China since his election last year. Taiwan and China have since opened up tourism, palace museum exchanges, direct charter flights and are planning to discuss further economic agreements this year. (Read TIME's conversation with...
...with being an accessory to at least 27,900 murders. The allegations stem not from Ivan the Terrible's reign at Treblinka but rather from Demjanjuk's alleged role as a guard at Sobibor, another Nazi death camp. On Nov. 30, the accused was wheeled into a Munich courtroom for the start of what could be the last major Nazi war-crimes trial...