Word: decorums
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...that was the tone of the whole affair. Judge Brown had outraged Ruby's defense attorney, Melvin Belli, by ruling that TV cameras would be out of court when Ruby comes to trial in February. But then the judge went ahead and hired his own public relations firm. "Decorum will be maintained," trumpeted the first release...
Billie Sol & Candy Barr. Freedom of the press demands that television cameras be allowed the same privileges as newspaper reporters, say the journalists and judges (usually elective) who publicly oppose Canon 35. They also claim that modern equipment can make television coverage unobtrusive, undamaging to decorum. Champions of Canon 35 deny both counts. Just like any other newsman, the television reporter is free to go into any courtroom without a camera, points out Lawyer John H. Yauch, chairman of the committee of the American Bar Association that carefully reviewed Canon 35 a year ago. It is the effects of cameras...
...With decorum...
...despite all the contention, and all the criticisms, when the judicial board hands down its decision, it will probably rule for Sentencing Sam. The New York State Association of Trial Lawyers, familiar enough with the lash of the Leibowitz tongue, declares that his "wisdom, courage and ability to maintain decorum in his courtroom have not diminished with the years." Judge Leibowitz, says a lawyer who has been one of his severest critics, "guards against unjust acquittal as well as unjust conviction. He's the toughest judge in the city of New York, but nobody gets sent away...
...nothing undignified in "twisting," "swimming-pool antics" or "allnight parties." It's refreshing-and gives one a feeling of empathy to realize that our presidential family, which is surely versed, through birth and breeding, in propriety, fitness, decorum and dignity, is also human, vigorous, imaginative and "just plain fun," without a false sense of projecting a "godlike public image...