Word: trials
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Regarded in the past as a skilled trial lawyer, Civiletti holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Law School. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, where he prosecuted fraud and other cases for two years, before going into private practice. Civiletti emphasized he has no further governmental ambitions. When he completes his service as Attorney General, he intends to return to his law practice in Baltimore...
Donna Summer: Bad Girls (Casablanca). While everyone's gone disco, Summer, the best disco singer in the field, is rocking harder. About one side's worth of songs on this double set will be no trial for even the toughest disco adversary, because Donna has swell pipes and because she is trying to give the music more range and bite. Watch out, Diana Ross...
...technology has produced cameras that are compact and need no extra light; court rules limit their number and location. Perhaps just as important, people have become accustomed to the pervasiveness of TV. Studies in several states show little evidence that cameras affect jurors or witnesses. At the Bundy trial last week two jurors were blasé enough to fall asleep-on-camera...
...question is rapidly becoming when, not whether, trials should be televised. Most states that now let cameras into the courtroom require the permission of the prosecutor, the defendant and often the witnesses. In several states, like Florida, the press is presumed to have the right to televise trials without permission, though judges can bar cameras if they see a real risk of prejudice. Bundy and his lawyers have repeatedly objected, calling the trial a "media event" and warning of prejudice to jurors in other courts where Bundy must still stand trial. But Miami Judge Edward Cowart was unmoved. He told...
About 20 additional states are now considering whether to give TV cameras a trial run in their courts. As more do, cases are likely to arise that will give the Supreme Court another chance to try to strike a balance between fair trial and free press...