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Maitre Henri Robert asked the jury to acquit "the young stranger here and to give an answer without leaving this courtroom and this child...
...finding that their wrongs had become intolerable, held a mass meeting, indulged in declamations, shouts,'until interrupted by the police. Five leaders were led off, protesting, to the city jail of Nashville, there lodged. Next day, on charges of inciting to riot, they were tried in a courtroom crowded with black and white faces, sentenced to a suspended fine...
...present-day practice in reporting sensational law suits in the public press is typified by the publication of photographs of courtroom scenes. The attendant stories stress in like fashion those features which excite popular attention. This sating of the public appetite for the unusual not only brings the undesirable results incident to all scandal, but is peculiarly harmful in its effect upon the administration of justice. Thus we find the presentation of a trial in the light of a theatrical performance rather than a dispassionate inquiry into the merits of the case. This is bound to lessen respect...
Guest of honor at a luncheon given in Manhattan by the students of the Fordham Law School was Max D. Steuer, famed "courtroom" lawyer. While the rapt students flicked ashes into their demi-tasse saucers, Mr. Steuer told them how to talk to a jury. Said...
...final day of the trial came last week; and the Soviet Government opened the courtroom to the public. There was the Supreme Judge of the Military Tribunal, Ulrich, guarded by three stalwart soldiers. There was Kamenev, Acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, sitting with his beautiful wife. Side by side sat Krassikov, President of the Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap...