Word: decorums
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After dinner, Burriss, Young 55, assistant dean of Freshmen and proctor of Massachusetts Hall, read a letterform, the President and Fellows that declared, "This anniversary shall be celebrated this evening with reverence, thanksgiving, decorum, and all degrees of gravity, merriment, and appropriate piping, clangor, and percussion sound...
...strike. Hilliard was released from jail yesterday afternoon after a sixmonth contempt of court sentence was commuted to "time served" by New Haven Superior Court Judge Harold M. Mulvey. Bobby Seale, Panther Chairman and one of the defendants, had earlier told Mulvey that the Panthers favored "peace and decorum in the courtroom. We want a fair trial...
Since the trial has ended, legal scholars and the Supreme Court have mulled over the issue of courtroom decorum. It is, in fact, perfectly reasonable to ask whether the U. S. judicial system will be able to survive the calculated histrionics of men like Abbie Hoffman. But the metamorphosis of Kunstler and his clients shows that the Chicago trial was simply not the place where that issue could be decided. By the time the confrontation took shape, the Judge had so stripped away the vestiges of fairness that it is impossible to say whether better trials might work...
...Supreme Court last week upheld the power of trial judges to control unruly defendants by citing them for contempt, removing them from the courtroom or shackling and gagging them. The decision was an obvious response to the growing phenomenon of obstreperous defendants who mock all accepted rules for trial decorum. Wrote Justice Hugo Black: "Our courts, palladiums of liberty as they are, cannot be treated disrespectfully with impunity...
...insisted that there would be no trial. His conduct bore little relation to that of the politically savvy defendants in the Chicago conspiracy trial. And what if the judge himself provokes the defendants into disruptive behavior? While Allen's trial judge was a model of patience and decorum, Judge Hoffman has been accused of goading the defendants and of denying Bobby Scale his constitutional right to representation by his lawyer. In a concurring opinion last week, Justice William O. Douglas suggested that the Supreme Court should have skipped the relatively unimportant Allen appeal and waited for a more pertinent...