She sat at the front of an ornate, ninth-floor courtroom, next to Senator Charles E. Schumer and members of Congress.

After her son pushed her into the ornate courtroom in her wheelchair on Monday, Ms. Coke listened intently to the arguments.

And there it sat, just outside the ornate courtroom overlooking Reade Street in lower Manhattan.

The ornate and majestic courtroom that provides the backdrop of this scene, with its stained glass and carved cherubs, is about as 19th century as it gets.

In a brief outburst in the ornate courtroom, each of the protesters rose, denounced the ruling and was immediately taken into custody.

At the opening of his trial, Mr. Honecker seemed almost jaunty, raising his fist and smiling to acknowledge supporters in the ornate 19th-century courtroom.

The power of Greek Revival architecture comes not from lushness (although Borough Hall does contain, in addition to the Victorian cupola, a spectacular and ornate courtroom added in 1903) but from a blunt, straightforward matter-of-factness.

So the questioning of potential jurors occurred in a robing room behind an ornate courtroom on the first floor of 40 Centre Street.

The clerk who read the charges was a spinsterish woman who looked as if she had been born into the ornate old courtroom.

The second floor had offices for court staff and federal agencies, while the third floor contained the ornate courtrooms, judicial chambers, and conference rooms.