In cramped courtrooms, eight judges contended with as many as 50 cases apiece.

Court officials spent more than $2 million on new technology to reach beyond the cramped courtroom to Spaniards who suffered through one of the nation's most traumatic events since the civil war of the 1930s.

Four rows in the cramped courtroom were filled with East Hartford officers, wearing black bands on their badges.

For eight months, the tale of the Operation Crevice Seven has been unfolding in a cramped, windowless courtroom in the Old Bailey in London.

For a few moments on Thursday, most of South Dakota's delegation to Washington occupied an unlikely space: a cramped, baby-blue courtroom in this isolated farming town of 2,376.

Grainy video images in the cramped courtroom showed him behind bars in a holding cell, dressed in a knit sweater, his hair cropped close.

The cramped courtroom has raised further doubts about the handling of the trial.

It was not uncommon for cases to be heard in small, cramped courtrooms with the electricity cut off while prisoners were unable to attend because of lack of transport from jails to courtrooms.

Of the 92 potential jurors summoned to the cramped third-floor courtroom (capacity: 91) on Monday morning, dozens said they knew Mr. Janklow.

"I am not a naïve person," he told three judges and a single state prosecutor in a cramped courtroom.