According to the Guinness Book of World Records ( 2002 ), A Free Soul holds the record for the longest take in a commercial film, the final courtroom scene at 14 minutes.

When Dottie Hinkle testifies that Beverly is her prank phone caller, Beverly's courtroom antics cause Dottie to explode in a cursing fit, destroying her credibility and the judge holds her in contempt of court.

A courtroom is the actual enclosed space in which a judge regularly holds court.

* Bar ( law ), in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas ; the process of qualifying to practice law ; and the legal profession

The play received glowing reviews in all the British broadsheets, including The Times: " The Tricycle's latest recreation of a major inquiry is its most devastating "; The Daily Telegraph: " I can't praise this enthralling production too highly ... exceptionally gripping courtroom drama "; and The Independent: " A necessary triumph ".

At the site of the trial, the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, a $ 1-million restoration project was completed in 1979, which restored the second-floor courtroom to its original appearance during the Scopes trial.

The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ) broke new ground with its exploration of the then taboo subject of heroin addiction, as did Anatomy of a Murder with its frank courtroom discussions of rape and sexual intercourse — the censors objected to the use of words such as " rape ", " sperm ", " sexual climax " and " penetration ".

He published his report of the trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, whose murder of William Weare provided Regency England with one of its juiciest courtroom melodramas ; sales, not to mention the author's ego, were boosted when Thurtell allegedly mentioned, just seven hours before his execution, that among his final wishes was a desire to read Egan's coverage of a recent prizefight.

The film is notable for its use of courtroom drama to directly confront individual perfidy as well as social upheaval and amorality, in addition it is one of the first, and remaining few films that does not shy from showing actual historical footage filmed by American soldiers after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

Bar in a legal context has three possible meanings: the physical division of a courtroom between its working and public areas ; the process of qualifying to practice law ; and the legal profession.

When the jury returned its verdict from the first trial, the jury from the second trial was taken out of the courtroom.

The Shalam Colony managed to attract membership from all over the United States, though one such member filed suit in 1891 with the New Mexico Supreme Court, claiming that the commune fell short of its promises ; the suit caused great hilarity in the courtroom, where Judge Freeman made fun of Faithism in metaphor and ridicule, as reported by The Central Law Journal.

The OST's commitment to using this process is reflected in its planning for a restorative justice courtroom in the new tribal justice center.

The tribe is working on a justice center and has advertised an art competition for works for its spaces, to include the tribal courts and a restorative justice courtroom.

Ivan's madness takes its final hold over him and he is carried away from the courtroom after recounting his final meeting with Smerdyakov and the aforementioned confession.

According to creator Reginald Rose, " the law is the subject of our programs: not crime, not mystery, not the courtroom for its own sake.

In a hospital courtroom, its judge announces the decision, but the patient does not obtain any motivated decision.

His direct testimony was short ; he gave some career background and testified that he had produced the show Living With Michael Jackson, which was then played in its entirety for the courtroom.

Despite a weak start, with opening witness Anthony Gilberti unable to recognize Massino in the courtroom, the prosecution would establish its case to link Massino with the charges in the indictment through an unprecedented seven major turncoats, including the six turned made men.

In its forty years ( 1851 – 1891 ) as a frontier post, Fort Union had to defend itself in the courtroom as well as on the battlefield.

MOCC operates as a small town, having its own post office and ZIP code, power plant, electrical sub-station, fuel depot, water supply, central warehouse, maintenance garage, hospital and medical clinic, gymnasium, chapel, library, classrooms, courtroom, food service and laundry facilities.

The group then faced legal action as a result ( including a fine imposed on the group after its male member dropped his pants in a Kristiansand, Norway, courtroom ), and consequently moved its headquarters to Berlin, Germany.

In addition, the society ensures that its members are properly trained in all areas of trial advocacy and courtroom etiquette by keeping all members apprised of traditional and modern trial techniques.

The trial was criticised by some human rights observers for its lack of transparency, as Cheung's mother and lawyer were not allowed in the courtroom, and others alleged that the PRC was holding the trial in secrecy to cover up embarrassing links that military officers had sold weaponry to Cheung.

After the Act of Mediation and the collapse of the Helvetic Republic, Gersau became a district of the canton of Schwyz until 1814, when it regained its independence, with Schwyzer approval, centred around the 1745 Rathaus, containing council chambers and a courtroom ( now a museum ).

During her 2000 parole hearing, Sharon Tate's sister, Debra, read a statement written by their father, Paul, which said in part, " Thirty one years ago I sat in a courtroom with a jury and watched with others.

Composing herself enough to look up from the color photo of the dead, bloodied Sharon Tate, Kasabian shot a look across the courtroom to the defendants.

In his first speaking role in the courtroom, Cinquè, through a series of flashbacks, tells the haunting story of how he became a slave.

Martin, who said “ I ’ d never understand the law ” ( p. 19 ), began singing outside the courtroom where her father worked every Saturday night at a bandstand where the town band played.

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.

An early example of this overlapping form was Perry Mason, wherein the eponymous trial lawyer would usually defend his clients from their murder charges by investigating the crime before the trial, and dramatically revealing during the closing courtroom scene the real perpetrator, by calling some other person to the stand and interrogating him or her into confessing in open court of either having committed the murder or witnessed it being perpetrated by someone else instead of the defendant.

In her second visit to Spicer ’ s courtroom, she said a man stepped forward and poked a large, bronze pistol into a unnamed Cowboy's belly, then took a couple of steps backward.

Openly racist, snobbish, and rude toward Indians and those Anglo-Indians who are different, she screams at Adela in the courtroom when the latter retracts her accusation against Aziz.

Leamas, in the end of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold makes the diametrically opposite moral choice, renouncing his loyalty to Britain and to the Circus, and keeping faith with Liz to the bitter end, even to letting himself be killed at her side — after she had earlier kept faith with him in the courtroom, and let herself be disgraced as a Communist, by openly proclaiming her love for him.

He appeared in " The Trail of Carmen Sandiego " where he had Carmen Sandiego abducted from her caper in the Mayan Ruins and subpoenaed Zack and Ivy to his hidden courtroom in Italy using Lee Galese as bait.

He is reluctant to sentence her, and when Pete appears in the courtroom to plead for his wife, he agrees to hand her over to him.

Madison Magazine named The Progressive's political editor Ruth Conniff as one of their Editors ' Choice in 2011 for her " frontline dispatches from inside and outside the State Capitol and the courtroom across the street.

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.

Dorothy stalls for time in court by pretending to be Lorelei, disguised in a blonde wig and mimicking her friend's breathy voice and mannerisms, and putting on a musical number show in the middle of the courtroom, which attracts, confuses and flusters the assembled, including the judge.

In 1963, Darnell was granted a divorce from Robertson following an outburst in the courtroom, where she accused her third husband of fathering the baby of a Polish actress.

Eli Sanders won in the Feature Writing category for " The Bravest Woman In Seattle ," which the citation describes as " a haunting story of a woman who survived a brutal attack that took the life of her partner, using the woman ’ s brave courtroom testimony and the details of the crime to construct a moving narrative.

The actual defendants in the crime constantly disrupted her testimony with a blizzard of dramatic courtroom theatrics.

Daniel Gordon, a plumber whom Cathie was casually seeing, is arrested and tried for her murder, and Joe spends a few days in the courtroom listening to testimony.

Morris looked to her sons for support in the courtroom.

Since 1996, Sheindlin has presided over her own syndicated courtroom show, Judge Judy.