Show Courts And Truth By J. EDGAR Director The search for truth in many courtrooms today has taken on new In some the in addition to administering is forced to justify its existence and physically police its proceedings to maintain a modicum of THERE ARE occasions when the court seemingly spends as much time trying to control shouting defendants and their recalcitrant counsel as in conducting the In the courts are now experiencing some of what law enforcement for years has suffered in full measure-violent disrespect for the law and diabolical schemes to prove that the system of justice does not work in FOR reverence for the law is no longer a sacred The attributes so vital to impartial courtroom procedure are and court is Let us make no mistake about When defendants call the jurist fascist and lying shout curses and obscenities at the chant in and completely destroy the dignity of the the duty of the court is The consequences must be sufficient to deter such ASIDE from the contemptuous courtroom conduct equally disturbing are the public agitations and blatant outcries from some quarters against a judge who takes firm action to meet the problem The beleaguered jurist is an instant villain in these contrived sideshows like the law enforcement officer before becomes a target of repeated IN DISCUSSING courtroom conflicts in Warren E. chief justice of the United stated in do know this-and so does anyone who has read legal history and read the newspapers in recent John and his colleagues at the would be shocked and bewildered at some of the antics and spectacles witnessed today in the courtroom of would be as shocked and baffled as are a vast number of contemporary Americans and friends of America all over the THE CHIEF Justice urged that priority be given lo methods and lo procedure and and to management and administration of resources to meet the challenges to our system of there is indication that most of the members of the legal profession agree with the Chief Justice and are working to correct these IF THE judiciary is to keep the faith of the American then it must deal promptly and decisively with vituperative outbursts and disruptive tactics in Justice without strength will soon become no justice at |