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...defendant, present in the courtroom for all this, was a young man accused of gun possession. To me, if not to the judge, that distinction seemed to indicate at least the possibility that the man who now knew all of our vital statistics had a gun! I can't speak for anyone else, but when I was eventually called, I was not at all thrilled to be telling Mr. Colt 45 my life story. But that was just the beginning...
...might, could not feign sincerity. We took pity on him and gave him easygoing, helpful answers to his fairly predictable questions ("Do you all understand what 'presumption of innocence' means?" and so on). It was actually fortunate that we got our fill of "generic" courtroom questions from him because we would get no such things from the defense attorney...
Length might be the film's only major flaw (as, ironically, with the book) since most else is constructed in a standard, unobjectionable way. In fact, as far as remarkable courtroom dramas go, this one ranks probably more favorably on the page than on screen, when one considers the possibilities. "A Time to Kill" offers a steady diet of unchallenging drama for those bloated on other summer fare...
...Janet Reno has asked Starr to investigate how the White House got hold of secret bureau files on officials of the Bush and Reagan administrations. Reno's pass to him undercuts Administration attempts to portray the special prosecutor as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Dole campaign, just a courtroom branch of the Republican election-year strategy...
...that children were at particular risk to exposure to smut online--TIME's controversial "cyberporn" cover story last summer notwithstanding. In a kind of Socratic online safari, the judges spent weeks learning their way around the Net. Guided by experts who brought computers and an Internet connection into the courtroom, they searched for online porn and tested software that allows parents to screen out offensive material. They finally concluded that whatever danger was posed for kids by the presence of "indecent" offerings online was best addressed by parents or teachers. Obscenity and child pornography, the judges noted, are already illegal...