Word: decorums
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Disrupting courtroom decorum is an occasional tactic of defendants and even defense lawyers willing to risk violating the canons of their profession. Often with the help of an intemperate judge, they manage to raise a legal ruckus that may very well provoke a mistrial or a judicial error likely to be reversed on appeal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet laid down rules for obstreperous lawyers, it held last year that a judge has broad powers in dealing with unruly defendants. He can have them gagged or bound, expelled from his courtroom or cited for contempt...
...contentious nation. So much so, in fact, that he has chosen to use the prestige of his high office to speak out on the troubling issues that transcend politics. He derives much of his inspiration from American history, and quotes approvingly from Thomas Jefferson's manual of decorum, which urged restraint on the uninhibited behavior of colonial legislators...
...Bingham Trophy was supposed to be Harvard's "highest athletic honor," but the press conference Monday lacked the decorum and ceremony that one expects of a Harvard tradition. The audience included all of one reporter and two photographers, one of them from the athletic department. Attendance was so bad they ended up thanking me four times for coming. Even the spaghetti lunch seemed well below the roast beef banquet standard...
...rowdy group who initiated the raucous food fight rude to our guests who graciously agreed to present a program but also inconsiderate of possible damage to the paintings. Plans for future Senior Dinners should be terminated if their outcomes are displays of the seniors' pitching abilities and lack of decorum...
...usages of such a meeting. No matter how moral the motivation of the defendants, the action, premeditated by the clergymen and expressly ordered to cease by the presiding officer, was impermissible. Expression of views by the audience in a legal hearing, it appears, is limited by the canons of decorum in such a setting...