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...nameless and faceless, just a blue dot, gray smudge or white circle on TV screens. Only her shoulder-length black hair was visible around the edges of the distortion, along with a bit of tailored suit and a string of pearls. Inside the courtroom, however, the jury and a few spectators had a clear view for nearly two days of a 30-year-old single mother struggling with a variety of emotions, from anger to anguish, as she testified about a fateful evening...
...asked to provide more and more graphic details of the alleged rape, she fidgeted with her pearl necklace, rubbed her left shoulder, then broke into uncontrollable tears. No one gave her a tissue at first, so she wiped them away with her hands as the courtroom audience watched in fascination...
During more than five hours of cross-examination, the alleged victim held to her main accusation with steely insistence. Only on Thursday did she let her anger break through. With her eyes swollen from the tears, she leaned forward and wagged her finger at Smith across the courtroom. "What he did to me was wrong," she said. "I don't want to live for the rest of my life in fear of that man. I don't want to be responsible for him doing it to someone else." Presiding judge Mary Lupo ordered jurors to disregard the statement. When attorney...
...fight is not so much over what people ought to believe; it is over what they can say, and where, and to whom. The battleground spreads from the courtroom to the schoolroom to the town square...
...Irish Catholic from a modest Connecticut family, Williams was a courtroom spellbinder with a photographic memory and an endless bag of trial-winning tricks. The powerful took notice. In time Williams' client roster would feature fewer names like "Nutsy" Schwartz and more like former Treasury Secretary John Connally. With his controlling interest in the Washington Redskins, Williams made the owner's box a showplace for Washington's elite. By 1974 he had become treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, a job that didn't keep him from voting for Gerald Ford, who had once offered...