prisoner's box
prisoner's dock

Homolka, in the popular view, should have taken her seat beside him in the prisoner's box and seat of ultimate evil.

Throughout the testimony, Bill Ballard sat restlessly in the chair designated by Canadian courts as the prisoner's box.

Retief, alone in the prisoner's box in the center of the room, his arm heavily bandaged and deadened with dope, faced the court.

And as he turned his gaze on Ferris, standing dumbfounded in the prisoner's box, Ferris had the fleeting sensation that the man saw into his very soul.

Alone in a forbidding room, alone in the prisoner's box before the judges, and alone to decide in face of oneself or in the face of others' judgment.

They unfastened my handcuffs, opened the door, and led me to the prisoner's dock.

Yet, he presently rallied, and said, "Will you look over there to the prisoner's dock?"

They are already seated in the prisoner's dock when I enter the courtroom at nine forty a.m.

We walked up to the prisoner's dock.

The courtroom was large and noisy; Webster sat in the prisoner's dock on the left, surrounded by an iron railing.

Dergoul interrupted the proceedings, yelling from the prisoner's dock.

IV IT is always interesting, even in the prisoner's dock, to hear oneself being talked about.

Both of them were arraigned before a magistrate the following morning, Hannah being the first to stand in the prisoner's dock, where she pleaded not guilty.

He thought of Ron standing in the prisoner's dock, the railed circle in the middle of the Klingon courtroom.

Still screaming I dived headlong from the prisoner's dock, shoulder-rolled neatly on the floor, and was across the room before my shocked audience could even consider moving.

Hermann Goering stands in the prisoner's dock at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial in 1945.

But that sorrow seemed to have made it itself feebly felt hitherto, now when Adam Bede's tall figure was suddenly seen being ushered to the side of the prisoner's dock.

He thought of the Klingon spectators surrounding the prisoner's dock, howling their disapproval and banging their staffs on the ground any time the proceedings didn't go exactly as they wanted.

In the beleaguered light shed by one candle, the mayor's dais and desk loomed over the prisoner's dock, a marble edifice of gothic carvings and fluted supports and grotesque, hunchbacked caryatids, whose suffering poses were painted in shadows like scenes from Sithaer's bleak pits.

The steely-eyed appraisal of the trained warrior was in Tolliver's eyes as he flicked his gaze briefly toward the approaching Ferris, and the swordsmith found himself automatically measuring the man for one of his finer blades-until the bishop's glance shifted to the four well-dressed men lounging on a bench opposite the prisoner's dock.