Justice Blackmun, then 80, read his dissenting opinion in a tense and hushed courtroom.

The verdict stunned the hushed courtroom over which he once presided.

With rising drama, he repeated the question four times to the hushed courtroom.

A perfunctory hearing in a hushed courtroom here today did not pass without a moment of drama.

For the most part, however, the defendants displayed little emotion as the judge announced the sentences in the hushed courtroom.

No one had trouble hearing him in the hushed courtroom.

An incentive of this sort is inappropriate," the judge said, to a hushed courtroom.

After the widows' testimony before a hushed courtroom, the tempo picked up.

They returned two hours later, when the foreman addressed the hushed courtroom with their unanimous verdicts.

The foreman took a deep breath and his voice resounding in the hushed courtroom said, "We find him not guilty."