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  • Court-room rules of evidence are in force in order to insure that conclusions about guilt and innocence are rational conclusions, based on evidence, not fantasies, delusions, or prejudices that rest on nothing more than adrenaline and scarey stories.

    I Said I Said What I Said | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • The audience rose to receive them; and the bustle occasioned by their entrance was hardly composed, when a great noise and confusion of persons struggling, and forcibly endeavouring to enter at the doors of the Court-room, and of the galleries, announced that the prisoner was about to be placed at the bar.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • When they entered the Court-room, Deans asked the Laird, in a tremulous whisper, “Where will she sit?”

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Withdrawing from the Court-room, he retired into a private chamber, from whence he dismissed his followers, only keeping this single Retainer to wait upon him.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • He is a great traveller, a connoisseur of the produce of the field and the vineyard, and I can certify that in the Court-room he is un adversaire formidable.

    The Canada Council at Work 1968

  • Court-room, one which immediately struck the eye of those entering, as this was its first appearance during the trial, was a plain wooden dock, low in front, high at the back, and large enough to hold four men.

    A Woman's Part in a Revolution Natalie Harris Hammond

  • A large number of armed men were stationed at the entrance and about the Court-room.

    A Woman's Part in a Revolution Natalie Harris Hammond

  • Morice dashed from the Court-room and ran hatless through the streets of Pretoria to withdraw Gregorowski's name, which had been put up at the Club, at his request.

    A Woman's Part in a Revolution Natalie Harris Hammond

  • Though I had no intention of being present in the Court-room, I wished to be within reach of my husband in case he should need me.

    A Woman's Part in a Revolution Natalie Harris Hammond

  • A deep hush fell upon the Court-room -- a profound, breathless silence that became oppressive before the next official utterances disturbed it.

    A Woman's Part in a Revolution Natalie Harris Hammond

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