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Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Primary sources document one of the most controversial trials of the twentieth century when the Rosenbergs attempt to defend themselves against charges that they passed secrets about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
62) Without a doubt
Author
Publisher
Graymalking Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the O.J. Simpson trial and shares the author's opinions on the legal strategies, principal lawyers, and media coverage.
63) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...
66) Roe v. Wade
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history. It is a compelling and deeper look into the parties involved on both sides of this landmark decision.
67) Natchez burning
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
The year is 1869. After a brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae is arrested for the crime. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but the police and the courts must decide what drove him to murder the local village constable. And why did he kill his other two victims? Was he insane? Or was this the act of a man in possession of his senses? Only the...
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
United States Supreme Court decision on Thomas E. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et al., Petitioners v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, et al. Includes the full text of the historic decision, highlighting the dramatic dissent."--
"The full text of one of the most radical and controversial Supreme Court decisions in American history, highlighting the galvanizing dissent by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and...
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous—like the Salem witch trials—and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous...
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 4
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Description
Today, wildland fire is everybody's business, from the White House to the fireground. Wildfires have grown bigger, more intense, more destructive--and more expensive. Federal taxpayers, for example, footed most of the $16 million bill for fighting the 2006 Esperanza Fire in Southern California, which marked the first time that an entire five-man engine crew was killed by fire, as well as the first time that an arsonist was successfully prosecuted...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From his early career as a public defender to his success overturning wrongful convictions working with the Innocence Project, James Buting's story provides a compelling expert view into the high-stakes arena of criminal defense law; the difficulties of forensic science; and a horrifying reality of biased interrogations, coerced or false confessions, faulty eyewitness testimony, official misconduct, and more. Combining narrative reportage with critical...
77) Betrayal
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman, whose husband was sent to prison when their friends' daughter accused him of a heinous act, risks her future happiness to avenge him and clear his name.
79) With prejudice
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gabriel Soto is a social recluse accused of the murder of Melina Mora, a free-spirited and deeply loved young woman. At the center of the media spotlight is Sandy Grunwald, an ambitious young female prosecutor whose political fortunes depend on her using the limited evidence to secure a conviction. But the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story--especially the jury. With striking originality and expert storytelling, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Recounts Anne Hutchinson's struggle with the Puritan Church over its rigid theocratic control of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, her trial for heresy and sedition, and banishment from the colony.
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