He walked to the counsel table and picked up a heavy stone, weighing it in his hand.
The judge announced, "The court's just been made aware that, unbeknownst to counsel and the court, a microphone was placed at counsel table".
She takes a seat at the counsel table, unpacks her Tumi briefcase, spreads out her papers and grabs a Uniball pen.
His Judge Hoffman assumed that a black defendant was a domestic mistakenly sitting at a counsel table and also issued the sentence before the jury's verdict.
Officer Valle, who cried quietly during parts of Ms. Gatto's summation, embraced her warmly after she returned to the counsel table.
A defense lawyer said that, without knowing who was "turning that light on and off," he and his colleagues could "only assume that maybe they are monitoring additional communications, perhaps when we are at counsel table".
"His position away from counsel table, where defendants always sit, is obviously designed to suggest, albeit subliminally, his a role as a remote actor in the events at the center of the trial".
An Algerian accused in a terrorist plot to strike the Los Angeles airport during millennium celebrations in 1999 brought his trial to a halt yesterday, flailing his arms and banging his head on the counsel table as an old friend and former co-defendant testified against him.
Inside the courtroom, the counsel table in Judge Howard's six-sided courtroom was excessively crowded with five defendants, four defense attorneys, and prosecutor Adam Sturdivant, who was pushed to the far left end with little space to rest his yellow legal pad and copies of the 2016 Washington Court Rules and Courtroom Handbook on Washington Evidence.
B1 Outburst at Terror Trial Mokhtar Haouari, 32, an Algerian accused in a millennium terrorist plot, brought proceedings in his federal trial in Manhattan to a halt for the day by flailing his arms and banging his head on the counsel table as an old friend and former co-defendant testified against him.
