Law makers, law breakers, and uncommon trials
By: Robert Aitken and Marilyn Aitken.
Contributors: Aitken, Marilyn.
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781590318805
Subjects: Trials -- United States.; Trials -- Great Britain.; Trials -- Ireland.; Trials
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The king who lost his head : the trial of Charles I; value: James Wilson : an unknown American founder; value: The 1798 Sedition Act : president's party prosecutes press; value: Signed, sealed, but not delivered : Marbury v. Madison; value: Justice Benjamin Curtis and Dred Scott; value: The long, strange case of Dr. Samuel Mudd : the Lincoln assassination; value: The unusual Judah P. Benjamin; value: The life and death of George Wythe : "I am murdered"; value: The trial of Levi Weeks : Hamilton and Burr for the defense; value: Wild Bill Hickok : the two trials of Jack McCall; value: Justice Stephen Field, Justice David Terry, and Sarah Althea Hill; value: Mountain Meadows massacre; value: A punctuation mark : Rex v. Casement; value: The spelling game : Russell's cross-examination of Pigott; value: Hans Frank : Hitler's lawyer; value: The Ardeatine caves; value: Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane; value: Exodus : the trial; value: Zigzag : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis; value: Schumann v. Wieck : the battle for Clara; value: Whistler v. Ruskin : a question of art; value: Sir Edward Carson cross-examines Oscar Wilde; value: United States of America against one book entitled Ulysses by James Joyce; value: Pride and prejudice : the dark side of Henry Ford; value: Rosa Parks : an American icon.