The Godfather Walks
July, 1987
At times, the courtroom at John Gotti's trial was a hit like a high school classroom with the bad boys lounging in the back. As Jimmy Breslin said, all they wanted to be was absent. But here they were, bad boys in their 40s--the men of the Gambino crime family, trapped in detention once again and hating it.From the start, nobody doubted that the trial had great potential as theater. In the starring role, of course, was the "new godfather" himself, John Gotti, the man whom law-enforceme...
