and he has this or that psychological difficulty' and that makes it very easy to defend him." And from the prosecution side, you're always on the other side of the courtroom and you never get that opportunity to humanize these people.So it's a difficult thing and again back to this question, what makes people do what they do? What makes us what we are? What makes us? What is this experience of being us?
Man, you're immobilized. You can't run." So in the next scene you're we're in the courtroom in Gotham City and uh they bring Lord Death Man up to to the judge and he says, "Well, for your crimes wesentence you to death." And so he Lord Death Man just laughs and then he collapses onto the floor dead.
I mean, I did a TV series years ago called "Law & Order -- Crime & Punishment." And it was all about trials and courtrooms . And one of the things interesting about trials are trials have inherent drama.You have a trial.
to integration came down and as the Civil Rights battle shifted from courtrooms and lunch counters to playgrounds and backyards and dinner table the story of American life really thestory of integration unfolded in childhood so the
cows for a living. Now, I could easily write half a dozen lawyer jokes comparing slaughter houses to courtrooms . They practically write themselves, but I'm not going to do that because I refuse to disrespect themeatacking industry. See, it's very easy this stuff. You could do it, too. Uh, all of my friends and ex-girlfriends are
and he'll be given a label. In courtrooms across this country he'll be labeled a thief. And without an advocate, without a lawyer, to provide a counter narrative to show him as a father, as a caring person, as a hard worker,
We know the impact has been tremendous from our own lawyers' experiences. Our courtrooms are filled with judges and prosecutors and probation officers who are spatially close to people they are processing in the cells for intolerable
what do you end up with? There's a great line from the movie, The Untouchables, the remake with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner and stuff, and they're trying to deal with a corruption issue in Chicago in a courtroom because the Al Capone types had bought the jury. And the real famous moment in the movie is when, because the jury's been bought, they can't get Capone and whatever, and they come in and they bring in all the jury replacement members that aren't corrupt, and then that changes everything, right? It's essentially like replacing your corrupt government with a
You have worked with a ton of different directors in a ton of different mediums-- Edward, in specific, is someone who, in this instance, because being in the courtroom with Martin was one speed, doing the insane talk show with Bryan and Erin-- that was a very fun day.
And jurors have been discussing his fate for three days now, and in a matter of minutes they will return to the courtroom with the verdict and they will tell us, at last, what happened on that fateful night. And the journalists, of course, are fretting.
And it really wouldn't be fair to anybody to go through a process like that and have your guilt or innocence decided online rather than in a courtroom . Right. Yeah. No doubt.
And we wanted to show you, Alex, a couple clips from the play 8, so that you could sort of get the flavor of what was happening in the courtroom . -It's easy for people who want to deprive gays and lesbians of their rights to make all kinds of statements in campaign literature, or on TV, where they can't be
people in the trial, which was a way of taking you back four years and showing you some of the exciting things that happened in the courtroom . And why we won.
There's a lot of work to do. But being in the courtroom , it's an intimate environment.
There's a lot of work to do. And the courtroom was just electric.
Bailiff, remove Mr. Reiser, remove Mr. Reiser from the courtroom . I shift from one leg to another while watching. There's commotion behind me, heels clicking rapidly against the linoleum. But on the screen is the court is stunned silent. "I've been the best father I know how," Hans
Late in the afternoon, the building is mostly empty. I look in on courtroom nine. Boxes of tape, documents, and displays sit at the front of the room. The jury hardly requested any of it and now it will have to be stored somewhere.
So it was Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley who were taking the skill of this great profession of law and translating the passion from the street to the courtrooms of our country. And reminding the people, who unfortunately needed to be reminded, of that great promise we articulated in 1776, which is that we are all and should be treated and seen as equals. So I decided I wanted to be a lawyer at a very young age. Went to Howard University and then I came back home to San Francisco
He was the very first person that we filmed. We started inside the courthouse in the courtroom . That's where we started filming.
These are situations that became really comedic because of the situation. When Haley jumps in the courtroom it's hysterical. But it wasn't funny, man.
It legally protects you, but it doesn't really physically protect you from anything. But she walks out of the courtroom , holding this piece of paper. And she feels happiness for the first time in so long and even at the same time knowing that it's just symbolic.
They were not impressed-- the juries-- because at midnight, it's a happy experience. At 10:00 AM in a courtroom , it is obscene when you watch the movie. It just depends where you're seeing it.
He looked back in his courtroom , and he called this attorney up front and told this attorney that he wanted him to represent me on two counts of capital murder.
with these crowds outside of the courtroom .
She caught a stroke actually in the courtroom , and they had to rush her to the hospital when I was on trial.
There's a famous case in a courtroom in Boston in which lawyers defend smugglers who have been illegally searched.
We know the impact has been tremendous from our own lawyers' experiences. And she walked into the courtroom , and she stood up, and she made the argument.
is what's in the courtroom .
If you go into a courtroom , the plaintiff has an attorney.
The picture on the right is the courtroom sketch of what she looks like.
And here's where the courtroom drama will mutate again now into a horror story, not only for those who spent months roasting and then starving in airless prisons.
I can assure you that having David Boies depose you, would be incredibly difficult. He is like a surgeon in a courtroom , if that makes any sense. And you actually almost felt empathic for witnesses that testified in ways that you didn't agree with.
There's a lot of work to do. But to go into the courtroom , it's very highly structured.
There's a lot of work to do. But it's not a huge courtroom .
There's a lot of work to do. It's a fairly small courtroom .
If this were indeed a courtroom drama, the double doors in the back of the courtroom would fly open.
When the FBI came into the courtroom and was sittin' on the rows watchin' the trial, and the bailiffs told the judge that the FBI was in the courtroom .
ought to have cameras in the courtroom so that the public can see these
a whole CSI effect with the courtrooms and then we had the writer strike in the writer strike I felt like
And my apology to the world on the courtroom steps in New York with my mom's hand on my shoulder is one of the image that is ingrained in my heart
I would like to take you on a journey in the quest for the elusive truth. So we start our journey in a small town courtroom where a man is tried for the murder of his wife. According to the prosecutor, he killed her in cold blood at night in their home.
And if you were a judge in a courtroom , that ache would be experienced as a gut
And if you're going to enter my courtroom , you're going to have to leave that rag off.
But I was ushered into the back of an immense courtroom where my parents were standing before a judge.
So I turned and ran out of the courtroom .
We know the impact has been tremendous from our own lawyers' experiences. She talks about how she would walk into the courtroom , with her briefcase and her suit, and how long it took before the bailiff stopped asking her
aside and understand that what they heard outside the courtroom may not be true and that what they have to base their judgment on
and telling her everything that happened after they left the courtroom when the jury was supposed to be out.
It seemed as if she were working witchcraft in the courtroom itself.
There's a lot of work to do. And the Chief Justice really is clearly in charge of the courtroom .