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...courtroom was rather small, seating perhaps 100 people comfortably. The press was seated on the right (facing the judge) and members of the general public on the left. At the start of the Friday session, the room was only about half full. Several courtroom cops strolled around, dressed in white shirts, black ties and gold badges. They were also wearing large bulky black belts with all sorts of pouches and things hanging off of them - kinda like Dwayne Schneider on "One Day at a Time" - but unlike the sitcom super, the cops in the courtroom were also carrying holstered pistols...
...Combs' legal team was seated on the front right-hand side of the courtroom. There were nine people, including Combs, at the table. The prosecutors' table at the left - perhaps to give a David-vs.-Goliath impression to the jury - had just one person seated at it, assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos. All of Combs' people were dressed in suits that varied in color from banker's black all the way to banker's gray. Puffy himself was dressed in a gray suit with a thin blue checkerboard pattern. When I first saw him enter the courtroom I thought...
...tempting to believe, with match-fixing exposed and the image of Cronje's courtroom breakdown burned on the memory, that no player would dare give a bookmaker the time, let alone his team's batting order. "Money makes people do silly things," says Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak, who adds that young players can feel compelled to follow even the worst example of their captain. (South Africans Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams were suspended for accepting money from Cronje to play poorly in a one-day match against India last year...
Even at its most decorous and solemn, the law has its limits, and they were on stark display last week. Within the walls of the courtroom at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, legal reasoning held sway as presiding judge Lord Ranald Sutherland issued the unanimous verdicts of a three-judge panel in the trial of two Libyans for mass murder. The decisions were the culmination of more than 12 years of anguished activism by family members, and almost a decade of diplomatic wrangling to secure the defendants and set the unique location and parameters of the trial. They were based...
Levin's opinion provoked outrage from lawyers and editorialists alike. "Everyone should have a level playing field when they walk into a courtroom," said JTC executive director Paul Fischer. "How can it be fair when the judge is sleeping with one of the attorneys?" Said New York University legal ethicist Stephen Gillers: "There's no way of soft-pedaling Chrzanowski's conduct, no way of defending it.'' Wrote the Detroit Free Press: "There's surely something wrong with a system that can't hold [Chrzanowski] accountable." The judge's supporters are few. In her own defense, Chrzanowski released a statement...