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...technicalities for the many people who view Ryan as a "political prostitute," as former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm described him while testifying about how Ryan had allegedly pilfered $100,000 when he was the state chair of Gramm's reelection campaign in 1996. Among those sitting in the packed courtroom was the Rev. Duane "Scott" Willis and his wife, Janet, whose six young children were killed in 1994 when the van they were driving on a Wisconsin interstate exploded after a piece of a nearby truck dislodged and pierced its gas tank. When it was later discovered that the driver...
...Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation held oral arguments in Harvard Law School’s Ames Courtroom yesterday, marking just the second time in the school’s history that it played host to the court’s hearing of a live case...
...Since a 1991 Supreme Court ruling, the government has been allowed to call victims and their relatives to share their grief during the sentencing phase of trials, to make the victim as real and present in the courtroom as the killer is. In the sentencing of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, however, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch asserted the right to bar any victim testimony that was too emotionally loaded: "The penalty phase hearing here cannot be turned into some type of a lynching," he said...
...cultural icons are waging a courtroom battle over a fruit. Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, wants Apple Computer to remove its bitten-apple logo from its iTunes music store. A lawyer for Apple Corps, which is co-owned by Paul McCartney, RINGO STARR, George Harrison's estate and Yoko Ono, downloaded a Coldplay song from iTunes to show a London judge how Apple Computer uses its logo to sell music, in violation, the lawyer said, of a 1991 agreement that it would stay out of the music business. Apple Computer's lawyer responded that "even a moron...
...Wynne, a former prosecutor, notes that charges are often dropped to speed up jury deliberation and help jurors to focus on the crucial charges at the heart of the case. Overall, the government's case crushed the defense, Berg believes. "It was deeper and wider than anyone in that courtroom expected," he says...