Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dearborn Street. The admittance procedure was explained to me. At about 8 a. m. thirty-five spectators would be allowed into the lobby of the building. The first twenty-five of these were certain to see the trial, and the last ten were standbys. If any spectator left the courtroom, his seat would be given to one of the standbys. When 10 a. m. arrived, these select thirty-five would be corralled into elevators and taken to the twenty-third floor of the building, a step closer to the trial itself. Finally, at 10:15 the courtroom door would open...
...favorite was a long interview with Abbie Hoffman of the Conspiracy Seven. Abbie gives you a feeling for just what kind of insanity is going on in Judge Hoffman's courtroom-a feeling that Tony Lukas' daily Times stories cannot hope to give. While he talks about the trial as a battle between life and death with all the symbolism of life being on the defendants' side, a tape of a beautiful young couple screwing in the woods comes on the other three screens. They move together like ballet dancers, making love the way you always knew it should...
After 15 weeks, the trial of the Chicago Seven has lost much of its dramatic tension. One of the three obstreperous spectators carried from the courtroom last week bit a bailiff's hand, but for the most part even the antic outbursts have deflated. Some time in the next couple of months the jurors will have to sort through the tedium and the hijinks to confront one crucial question: whether they believe the prosecution testimony of undercover agents who swore that there had indeed been a conspiracy to incite riots. The verdict will depend far more on that than...
...Doors. The major leaks from the courtroom concerned the testimony of Paul Markham and Joseph Gargan, both lawyers and friends of Kennedy who had attended the Chappaquiddick cookout with him. They confirmed to Judge Boyle that they had helped Teddy try to rescue Miss Kopechne shortly after the car submerged. Gargan told of diving into the water and trying to open the car doors. The car's two left doors, scratched and wrapped in burlap, were brought to the courthouse, presumably because they might bear evidence of the attempts to open them or indicate why such efforts had failed...
...Alcohol Research and Re-Education Project. He persuaded municipal judges to order hundreds of local citizens convicted of D.W.I. (Driving While Intoxicated) to attend his four-week course or face the loss of their operator's licenses. Each Wednesday night as many as 130 offenders gather in a courtroom for classes that begin with Stewart's description of the Christmas Eve tragedy. "I'm afraid of you," he says. "I don't want you to kill me and my wife." He shows films depicting accidents so bloody that occasionally a student gags and rushes from...