That famous WPSE gallery of Heidrun Sigurdardottir has been re-enabled for free access. She's so pretty. [Heidrun Sigurdardottir]
Click a link on this page to watch a news report from last month concerning Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan. It's pretty strange, right up to the end where it turns out the judge's bench is adorned with more flowers than most funeral caskets. Should there really be a floral display at a murder trial?
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Craig Titus breaks down in court]
There's a new gallery of Jen "The Beast" Cowan pics over at HerBiceps. I had the opportunity to meet Cowan at the Arnold Expo and I'm sorry to report that she's very even-tempered. I made fun of her pants, I told her that "The Beast" isn't an appropriate nickname and began calling her "Princess", and committed various other offenses, but despite all of it I was not able to provoke her to violence. She gave me the finger once, but not the ass-kicking I had earned fair and square.
[HerBiceps]
Genex has posted a bunch of nice photos from shoots at the Arnold Expo, but I think this one of Jaime Buffalari is my favorite so far.
[Jaime Buffalari - FTVideo]
I can just see crusty old British judges having pots of flowers on their desks, not wearing wigs and gowns and sitting in an office chair - not!! :lol:
The old codgers would have a mutual heart attack. I must say though, I'm not keen on the informality - give me the Judge John Deed
type of court - wood-panelled, large and formal. That's the right environment for the Law to be upheld - not somewhere that looks like a doctor's waiting room.
Oh, and Ms Sigurdardottir looks spectacularly hot in those photos.
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2007-03-24 10:42:54
I don't spend a whole lot of time in courtrooms, but most of the ones I've been in are very sterile, utilitarian things with harsh fluorescent lighting. The exception is old courtrooms, which tend to lean more toward the wood-paneled accoutrements you describe.
This judge has flowers, a bottle of moisturizer, a little blue electric fan, and other things not normally associated with law enforcement, all sitting up on her bench. Plus, maybe it's a trick of the fluorescents, but her robes appear to be a shade of violet.
Now I understand this to some extent: she's not in trial mode and that's very likely not the trial courtroom. That's probably the hearing room where she hears motions all day long and we're looking at what functions as her work desk. Still, when the cameras come in the foo-foo desk accessories ought to go on the floor.
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2007-03-24 12:48:11
...that the room we see isn't the main court (I wonder why British English doesn't call it a "courtroom"?)
Interestingly, at our large Crown Courts, the judges each have "chambers", which function both as accomodation (simple food and drink-making facilities (usually accompanied by a few decanters holding old and interesting spirits), complete with a sleeping area, and as their office, with large bookcases, a proper desk etc.
Can you see Judge John Deed on BBC America? If so, I'd heartily recommend it, as a damn good drama series, and the legal stuff is accurate - the writers use a team of legal advisors to get things right. It's also a peek into the formalities (and aforementioned wood-panelled grandeur) of a British Crown Court. Don't forget, of course that real court cases in the UK cannot either be filmed or photographed - the court artist is a living profession here! Quaint, yes, but it's efective. Even the House of Commons didn't get TV cameras until the early-1990s, although microphones had been there for a long while before.
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2007-03-24 19:23:29
cpbell0033944
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(I wonder why British English doesn't call it a "courtroom"?)
Probably because "courtroom" is a redundancy. A "court" is a room, but in American English the word "court" has little use outside legal proceedings and basketball, so "courtroom" clarifies the meaning.
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2007-03-26 02:20:15
Well, there's also a royal court, which presumably comes up more in the UK than in the US.
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2007-03-25 12:32:07
Isn't a tennis court called a tennis court in the US, then? :0
