Memories of Famous Trials
Author : Evelyn Henry Villebois Burnaby
Publisher : London, Sisley's
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Judges
ISBN :
Author : Evelyn Henry Villebois Burnaby
Publisher : London, Sisley's
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Judges
ISBN :
Author : O. J. Simpson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Murder
ISBN : 9781906142124
In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, a crime for which he was found not guilty. In response to public outrage, the book was never published. Here is the original manuscript of the book.
Author : Lawrence Douglas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300109849
This is an examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. It studies exemplary proceedings including the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals and the Israeli trials of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk.
Author : George W. Hunter
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"A Civic Biology, Presented in Problems" is a reprint of an early 20th-century biology text reflecting the main assumptions of the eugenics movement, which was on the rise at the time of publishing. The book is famous for starting the Scopes trial, commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, an American legal case in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of teaching human evolution. The teacher was called to court for reading his students certain passages from "Civic Biology".
Author : Ian Stevenson, M.D.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1476601151
Many cultures accept that a person may die and then come back to life in another form, but Westerners have traditionally rejected the idea. Recently, however, surveys conducted in Europe indicate a substantial increase in the number of Europeans who believe in reincarnation, and numerous claims of reincarnation have been reported. This book examines particular cases in Europe that are suggestive of reincarnation. The first section provides a brief history of the belief in reincarnation among Europeans. The second section considers eight cases from the first third of the twentieth century that were not independently investigated, but were reported and sometimes published by the persons concerned. The third section covers 32 cases from the second half of the twentieth century that were investigated by the author. Many of these cases involved either children who exhibited unusual behavior attributed to a previous life, or adults who experienced recurrent or vivid dreams attributed to a previous life. In the fourth section, the author compares European cases suggestive of reincarnation with those of other countries and cultures.
Author : I. F. Stone
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0385260326
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The New York Times called this national best-seller an "intellectual thriller."
Author : Bill James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 141655274X
Originally published: 2011. With new addendum.
Author : Joel Joffe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1780746156
The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence attorney The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela’s defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment. On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia near Johannesburg, arresting alleged members of the high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned Nelson Mandela, they were put on trial and charged with conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government by violent revolution. Their expected punishment was death. In this compelling book, their defence attorney, Joel Joffe, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa’s history, vividly portraying the characters of those involved, and exposing the astonishing bigotry and rampant discrimination faced by the accused, as well as showing their incredible courage under fire.
Author : Greg Beratlis
Publisher : Phoenix Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 161467163X
We, the Jury is the dramatic story of seven jurors, who convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, despite a series of internal battles that brought the first major murder trial of the 21st century to the brink of a mistrial. The Peterson jurors argued and disagreed but eventually bonded to seal the fate of the icy killer who dumped his victims into the bullet-gray waters of San Francisco Bay. The seven jurors of We, the Jury were seven average Americans who never imagined the horrors they would face or the phantoms that would haunt them after they convicted the enigmatic murderer and recommended that he be put to death. This is the story of how the American jury system worked after being battered by critics for the way it functioned in the trials of O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson. Unlike the jurors in those trials, who second-guessed themselves, the Peterson jurors do not question their decisions. It wasn’t one thing that condemned Scott Peterson, it was everything.
Author : Errol Morris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0143123696
Soon to be an FX Docuseries from Emmy® Award-Winning Producer Marc Smerling (The Jinx) featuring the author Errol Morris! Academy Award–winning filmmaker Errol Morris examines one of the most notorious and mysterious murder trials of the twentieth century In this profoundly original meditation on truth and the justice system, Errol Morris—a former private detective and director of The Thin Blue Line—delves deeply into the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. MacDonald, whose pregnant wife and two young daughters were brutally murdered in 1970, was convicted of the killings in 1979 and remains in prison today. The culmination of an investigation spanning over twenty years and a masterly reinvention of the true-crime thriller, A Wilderness of Error is a shocking book because it shows that everything we have been told about the case is deeply unreliable and that crucial elements of case against MacDonald are simply not true.