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...This case hasn't been much like L.A. Law, has it?" joked Jon May, one of General Manuel Antonio Noriega's defense lawyers, to the 12 jurors sitting in the ornate main courtroom of Miami's federal courthouse. May had a point. The drug-trafficking and racketeering trial against the former Panamanian strongman, now in its fourth month, has droned on in near obscurity, with convicted smugglers and tainted tattletales spinning stories of cocaine smuggling, sly banking maneuvers and French dancing girls...
...looks straitjacketed in a dark suit. He seems caged in his chair in an Indianapolis courtroom as a demure 18-year-old from Rhode Island, a contestant in the Miss Black America Pageant last July, testifies that he raped her. But in his natural habitat, the boxing ring, Mike Tyson is a creature in - implacable forward motion. He just keeps coming, and you go down. He cuts you like a buzz saw, crushes you like a tree falling on a sleepy squirrel...
...virtues of the judicial system, the courtroom is not the best place to work out scientific truths. Lawyers pursuing drug-liability suits often depend on a small cadre of "expert witnesses" to help make their case. These hired guns, complains Frank Woodside, a doctor and attorney for Dow Corning Wright, "don't always have qualifications, and prey upon the sympathy of the jurors...
...there a reason why you wouldn't tell the truth if your father did touch you?" asks Purnell, trying to unmask the apparent cover-up. Tracy says no. Suddenly, Master Walker's loud voice booms across the courtroom. "She's giving more signals than a third-base coach for the Boston Red Sox," Walker says, gesturing toward the girl's mother. He has been watching her coach Tracy from the bench nearby...
Doll in hand, Emily leaves the courtroom. In the empty corridor, her siblings hug her and say goodbye. A few minutes later, Emily walks with her caseworker out of the building and back to her foster home, perhaps separated from her parents forever. The court has done what...