Author : Robert Asher
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791463789
A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.
Author : Janet Malcolm
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300168837
Malcolm's riveting new book tells the story of a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention.
Author : Jack DeSario
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873387705
The new prosecutor faces an old controversy -- An unlikely setting for murder -- Did Sam murder Marilyn? -- Putting the pieces of the puzzle together -- Final trial preparation : the emergence of the prosecutor's strategy -- Opening statements : setting the stage -- The Sheppard team presents its case -- The prosecutors speak -- Closing arguments and a verdict : the end of a legal era.
Author : Casey Cep
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 110194787X
This “superbly written true-crime story” (Michael Lewis, The New York Times Book Review) masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who tried to write his story. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members, but with the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative assassinated him at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the reverend himself. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who spent a year in town reporting on the Maxwell case and many more trying to finish the book she called The Reverend. Cep brings this remarkable story to life, from the horrifying murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South, while offering a deeply moving portrait of one of our most revered writers.
Author : Denver Nicks
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1613738366
On New Year's Eve, 1939, Elmer Rogers and his wife, Marie, were preparing for bed when a shotgun blast sent buckshot deep into Elmer's rib cage. When Marie ran from the room, screaming for help, a second gunshot erupted. The eldest Rogers child grabbed his baby brother and ran while the middle child clung to the bed frame, paralyzed with terror. The intruders poured coal oil around the house and set fire to the front door before escaping. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with Rogers the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. As anger at authorities grew, political pressure mounted to find a villain. The governor's representative settled on Lyons, who was arrested, tortured into signing a confession, and tried for the murder. The NAACP's new Legal Defense and Education Fund sent its young chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall, to take part in the trial. The NAACP desperately needed money, and Marshall was convinced that the Lyons case could be a fundraising boon for both the state and national organizations. It was. The case went on to the US Supreme Court, and the NAACP raised much-needed money from the publicity. Conviction is the story of Lyons v. Oklahoma, the oft-forgotten case that set Marshall and the NAACP on the path that led ultimately to victory in Brown v. Board of Education and the accompanying social revolution in the United States.
Author : Howard Ball
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
The compelling real-life story of the criminal investigation, indictment, and trial of Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and former Ku Klux Klansman finally convicted in June 2005 for the deaths of three civil rights workers--forty-one years after their brutal murders. A stunning final chapter to the case immortalized in the movie Mississippi Burning.
Author : Douglas Wynn
Publisher : Pan
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Homicide
ISBN : 9780330339476
Author : Dan Abrams
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1488095329
The award-winning, New York Times–bestselling chronicle of the sensational murder trial that would be the capstone of Lincoln’s legal career. In the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old “Peachy” Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. When Harrison’s father hired Abraham Lincoln to defend him, the case took on momentous meaning. Lincoln’s debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had transformed the little-known, self-taught lawyer into a respected politician of national prominence. As Lincoln contemplated a dark-horse run for the presidency in 1860, this case involved great risk. A loss could diminish Lincoln’s untarnished reputation. But the case also posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The victim had been his friend and his mentor. The accused killer, whom Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office. Lincoln’s Last Trial vividly captures Lincoln’s dramatic courtroom confrontations as he fights for his client—but also for his own blossoming political future. It is a moment in history that shines a light on our legal system, our history, and one of our greatest presidents. A Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award
Author : Suzanne Lebsock
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393326062
Recounts the events surrounding the dramatic post-Civil War trial of a young African American sawmill hand who was accused of ax murdering a white woman on her Virginia farmyard and who implicated three other women in the crime.
Author : James O. Chipman
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1662421737
These are some of the things you will learn by reading this book: After almost sixty years, it is time for the world to know the truth behind the death of JFK.If Kennedy had won reelection in 1964, there would not have been an American Vietnam War.You will learn things about Lyndon B. Johnson that you would not believe were possible.John F. Kennedy's assassination started a deep distrust that Americans have with their government that continues to this day.A major part of this distrust happened because the government lied to us about the assassination and lied to us about the Vietnam War.The conspiracy theory is what Hoover of the FBI came up with and then passed it along to the news media, the public and the Warren Commission.This book will tell you what really happened on November 22, 1963.
