1 The courtroom was a large dark chamber, an austere place.
2 The reporters buttonholed the witness outside the courtroom.
3 The solid rank of police officers lining the courtroom opened to let them pass.
4 The accused entered the courtroom handcuffed to two police officers.
5 The courtroom buzzed as the defendant was led in.
6 Given the judge's political ambitions and the lawyers' financial interest in the case, the only disinterested person in the courtroom may have been the court reporter.
7 At this courtroom he would become known as the infamous man in the bulletproof glass booth.
8 In a scruffy courtroom with breeze-block walls, the dock is empty, defendants no longer appear in person.
9 Such scenes were once unthinkable in England's courtrooms, where magistrates can be called "your worship" and some judges sport gowns and wigs.