New, too, was public access to the trial which the courtroom was constantly filled with standing-room-only spectators as well as live French-language broadcasts by Radio Bangui and local TV news crews which was broadcast all over the country, as well as neighbouring French-speaking African countries.

Contending he had tried to wrestle a knife away from her, McCoy and his attorney actually wrestled and rolled around on the courtroom floor, for the benefit of the jury, press and courtroom spectators.

When the bound statue arrived in the courtroom, the spectators burst into laughter.

Her testimony sticks to the fabricated story Raynor and she concocted, and appears to earn the support of the jury and courtroom spectators.

The trial had packed the large courtroom for more than a week.

Then he said " I'm fining everyone in this courtroom fifty cents for living in a city where a person has to steal bread in order to eat!

While it was primarily a comical song about a Judge and his courtroom it is also notable for the political lyrics " I'm goin ' to Paris to stop this war " and " I had a chat with Ho Chi Minh " both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace Accord negotiations to stop the war in Vietnam.

State supreme courts normally require a courtroom for oral argument, private chambers for all justices, a conference room, offices for law clerks and other support staff, a law library, and a lobby with a window where the court clerk can accept filings and release new decisions in the form of " slip opinions " ( that is, in looseleaf format held together only by a staple ).

At the court hearing, Vangelis set up synthesizers in the courtroom and played for the judge to demonstrate his compositional process.

In one episode of Max Headroom, " Academy ", the character Blank Reg fights for his life on a courtroom game show, with the audience deciding his fate.

After being reminded that she had not answered the charge of incest, Marie Antoinette protested emotionally to the accusation, and the women present in the courtroom — the market women who had stormed the palace for her entrails in 1789 — even began to support her.

He soon established a reputation for his legal skills and courtroom oratory.

In other countries, testimony is usually preserved for future use by way of live testimony in the courtroom, or by way of written affidavit.

Stevenson's legendary " Don't wait for the translation " speech to Russian ambassador Valerian Zorin during the Cuban Missile Crisis inspired dialogue in a courtroom scene in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

In 1956, Burr auditioned for the role of District Attorney Hamilton Burger in Perry Mason, a new courtroom drama based on the highly successful novels written and created by Erle Stanley Gardner that was to air on CBS.

" Though lawyers once complained of the character's implausibly perfect track record, Ide complimented Burr because he " strove for such authenticity in his courtroom characterizations that we regard his passing as though we lost one of our own.

It had little in common with the usual portrayal of Mason, so much so that Gardner withdrew his support for a TV version of the daytime serial in favor of the Prime Time Emmy-Award winning courtroom drama.

While filming in the Broward County Courthouse used as the set for the Miami Courthouse, director Fosse decided to cast a real-life bailiff in the role of the bailiff who drags Dustin Hoffman ( Lenny ) out of the courtroom.

Though Aldo was uncredited, the scene when Lenny is removed from the courtroom was chosen as the clip screened at the Academy Awards to represent the film as a candidate for Best Picture.

* In the first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a surrealist-comic courtroom scene featured Michael Palin playing Cardinal Richelieu as a character witness for the defendant ; the character was subsequently shown to be a Cardinal Richelieu impersonator.

Irving appealed the judgement, and received a fine of DM 10, 000 for repeating the same remarks in the courtroom on 5 May 1992.

During his appeal in 1992, Irving called upon those present in the Munich courtroom to " fight a battle for the German people and put an end to the blood lie of the Holocaust which has been told against this country for fifty years ".

The building does multiple duty for courtroom and county offices, as well as a community center and dance hall.

The story begins in a courtroom where an 18-year-old boy ( presented as a member of an unspecified minority group, though several interpretations of the film concluded he is Puerto Rican ) from a New York city slum, is on trial for allegedly stabbing his father to death.

Biegler's folksy speech and laid-back demeanor hide a sharp legal mind and a propensity for courtroom theatrics that has the judge busy keeping things under control.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times said, " After watching an endless succession of courtroom melodramas that have more or less transgressed the bounds of human reason and the rules of advocacy, it is cheering and fascinating to see one that hews magnificently to a line of dramatic but reasonable behavior and proper procedure in a court.

Technically the first novelization of a James Bond screenplay, it was born from a collaboration by five people: Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ivar Bryce and Ernest Cuneo, although the controversial shared credit of Fleming, McClory and Whittingham was the result of a courtroom decision.

Its distinctive bell tower is essentially unchanged and the original bell sits in the courtroom.

* Bench ( law ), the location where a judge sits while in court, often a raised desk in a courtroom ; also refers to the judiciary as a whole ( to differentiate from the bar ( law ) – the lawyers or barristers ); and may also mean a group of judges hearing a case and judging on a case.

The accused in a criminal trial sits in the prisoners box often located on the side wall opposite the jury, or in the middle of the courtroom.

The bailiff stands ( or sits ) against one wall and keeps order in the courtroom.

The doctor then dumps his body down a chimney, and this leads to yet another tale in the cycle, which continues with twelve tales in total, leading to all the people involved in this incident finding themselves in a courtroom, all making different claims over how the hunchback had died.

True Hollywood Story episode featuring Dynasty, former ABC executive Ted Harbert stated, " The truth is we didn't really believe that we had this thing done as a hit until Joan Collins walked down that courtroom aisle.

He attracted statewide attention in 1908 when he assisted Francis J. Heney in the graft prosecution of Abe Ruef and Mayor Eugene Schmitz, his success due in large measure to the fact that after Heney had been gunned down in the courtroom, he took the lead for the prosecution and won the case.

The bewildered lawyers wondered what he had been writing down, since he had obviously made up his mind before closing arguments ; once Sifton had left the courtroom, they found their answer in the form of page after page covered with the judge's signature.

The Doctor's demand that the trial be halted, since the same person cannot be both prosecutor and defendant, is turned down by the Inquisitor-but at that moment the Valeyard flees the courtroom.

In response, a group of dozens of local women then rioted and ransacked the courtroom: smashing windows, overturning furniture, and tearing down a Russian flag.

At Padgitt's trial, the former lover of Rhoda Kassellaw, Hank Hooten, guns down Danny Padgitt in the courtroom by positioning himself on the balcony.

" He believed the script was " dumbed down " in contrast to an actual justice system, although the game does reflect Japanese courtroom proceedings.

In June 1949, faced with the prospect of a courtroom defeat, Chandler offered amnesty to the players who had gone to the Mexican League.

The courtroom erupts and the presiding judge Rayford, the prosecution, and the others in the court room are enraged and flabbergasted at the turn of events, including Gail.