Solomon, a slim, nearly bald man with a Long Island accent, led Thompson through a courtroom and into his robing room.
Speaking in the Queen's Robing Room, Gates said: "We have a very significant chance to halt this epidemic.
Judge Sand sustained each government objection and eventually called lawyers for both sides into his robing room.
Behind the holding cell is the judge's robing room," where defendants speak privately with judges and prosecutors.
She described lofty feelings and rookie moments, like getting locked out of her chambers and then, on another day, locked out of the robing room near her courtroom.
The prosecutors say the lawyer turned to leave the robing room only to discover that the judge had quietly locked it while the money passed.
Judge Shirley Wohl Kram of Federal District Court in Manhattan conducted separate hearings with the two defendants, Carlos Goiry and Luz Marina Munoz, in what is known as the robing room.
It was unclear how the judge would handle this latest jury missive; upon a request from Mr. Seabrook's lawyers, the parties met in the judge's robing room for a brief discussion, which was not made public.
ANNE-MARIE HISLOP Chicago, Nov. 21, 2011 My partners and I are the proprietors of The Robing Room (www.therobingroom.com), which permits lawyers and laypersons to post anonymous evaluations of judges in the federal and state courts.
Feminist lore is full of stories of the times when women's rooms were lacking — near the United States Senate floor until the 1990s, near the House floor until the 1960s, in the Supreme Court justice robing room until 1993.
