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...euphoria proved to be short-lived, however, as the student activists were dealt a series of setbacks this year. Both in the courtroom and within Griswold Hall, where the office of Dean Robert C. Clark is located, the protesters ran into dead ends...
...Palm Beach case serves to remind women that if they go ahead and press charges, they can expect to go on trial along with their attacker, if not in a courtroom then in the court of public opinion. The New York Times caused an uproar on its own staff not only for publishing the victim's name but also for laying out in detail her background, her high school grades, her driving record, along with an unattributed quote from a school official about her "little wild streak." A freshman at Carleton College in Minnesota, who says she was repeatedly raped...
...society can ever provide more than token recompense to the relatives of murder victims. That is why it is an illusion -- born of compassion, it is true -- that justice can be found by adding their pain to the calculus of retribution in the courtroom...
...said attorney Najeeb Al-Wuqayan, who was educated at the University of San Diego. "You say you have witnesses, then let's call them and let's examine them." Three civilian and two military judges presided. The defendants were kept in a metal cage on one side of the courtroom...
...trials attracted little public interest. The only ordinary courtroom spectators were two women whose sons were arrested in the early days of liberation and have not been seen or heard from since...