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...announced the verdict, several of the jurors began to sob loudly. The defendants held hands but showed no emotion upon hearing the guilty pronouncement. Climaxing a dramatic and closely watched trial that pitted church against state, David and Ginger Twitchell were convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a Boston courtroom last week. Their crime: letting their sick 2 1/2-year-old son Robyn die because they chose to follow their religion and rely on prayers rather than call a doctor. "This has been a prosecution against our faith," lamented David Twitchell, a lifelong Christian Scientist. No, countered prosecutor John Kiernan...
...accused: Imelda Marcos, widow of the exiled Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, charged with helping him loot $220 million from their country's treasury. Three times she brought the trial to a halt by swooning, once coughing up blood to the shock of the courtroom...
...arms dealer stands accused of conspiring with the Marcoses to conceal their illicit spending by backdating documents to make it appear that he, not the Marcoses, had bought four Manhattan skyscrapers valued at about $400 million. Actress Bo Derek played a cameo role, visiting her friend Khashoggi in the courtroom...
...defense lawyer: Gerry Spence of Wyoming, a John Wayne wannabe whose trademark is an oversize Stetson atop poet-length silver locks. "When I come into a courtroom, I come to do battle," Spence growls, his hand figuratively on his holster...
...sole surviving arena for definitions of acceptable behavior. Disputes that once might have been resolved by fisticuffs or a few intense minutes in the confessional or private negotiations between squabbling clans now tend to wind up as lawsuits. The old ways form a staple of conventional novels; the newer courtroom focus calls for a specialist. By accident and design, Turow has trained himself to write both these narratives at once. He is the Bard of the Litigious Age, an expert witness on the technicalities of the current stampede to litigation and on the ethical and emotional conundrums that accompany...