Word: courtrooms
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...allegedly downloading seven songs from a file-sharing Web site in high school. Nesson, working the case pro bono with a handful of his students, has seized on the case as an opportunity to campaign for openness and access, both on the Internet and in the courtroom. In a representative effort to increase transparency, the Tenenbaum team motioned in December to broadcast a key courtroom hearing on the Internet. “Every trial should be Web-cast so long as the judge deems it appropriate and beneficial for all parties involved,” said Tenenbaum...
...Kazmi, appointed the previous day. After conferring for about five minutes with his client, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the only surviving suspect in the attacks, Kazmi told the judge, M.L. Tahiliani, that Qasab claims to be a minor and requests that his case be heard in juvenile court. The courtroom, filled with reporters and police officials, was stunned. Would this trial be suspended before it even began? (Read about the opening day in court...
...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...
...Before adjourning for lunch, Tahiliani directly addressed the three defendants and informed them of the changes in their representation. Qasab agreed and smiled at his new lawyer. He had watched the day's proceedings calmly, occasionally staring off into space and sometimes laughing when everyone else in the courtroom laughed. With a shaggy beard and hair that covered his ears and forehead, Qasab, 21, looked older than he appears in the globally circulated pictures captured of him during the Mumbai attacks, when he walked through the city's main railway station in cargo pants, brandishing weapons. Sabahuddin, 25, a head...
...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...