Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law
by Lief, Michael S; Bycel, Ben; Caldwell, H. MitchellFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-02
Publisher(s): Scribner
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Summary
From Clarence Darrow and the Nuremberg Trials to "The State of California v. Charles Manson", this one-of-a-kind collection brings together the impassioned words that put evil men to death, freed the innocent, and provided justice for the injured.
Author Biography
H. Mitchell Caldwell is a professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| Architects of Genocide: The Victorious Allies Put Hitler's Henchmen in the Defendant's Box at Nuremberg | p. 13 |
| Darrow in the Docket: In a Time of Labor Unrest, America's Greatest Litigator and Friend of the Workingman Fights for His Professional Life | p. 59 |
| Disorder in the Court: The Trial of the Chicago Seven Pits the Establishment Against the Woodstock Generation | p. 103 |
| Death by Plutonium: Fallout from Karen Silkwood's Death Brings the Nuclear Industry to Its Knees | p. 119 |
| Leopold and Loeb: "Spare Them, for They Know All Too Well What They Do" | p. 159 |
| A Man's World No More: Clara Shortridge Foltz Sends Shockwaves Through the Turn-of-the-Century Legal Establishment When She Becomes the First Woman to Do Battle in California's Courts | p. 211 |
| Peace, Love, and Murder: Manson Family Mastermind Sentenced to Die for Followers' Murderous Rampage | p. 223 |
| Justice Delayed but Not Denied: Three Trials and Thirty Years Later, Medgar Evers's Assassin Pays the Piper | p. 289 |
| Coke, Lies, and Videotape: The DeLorean Defense Team Convinces Jurors They Can't Trust Their Eyes--Or the Feds | p. 305 |
| Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and My Lai: A Generation After Nuremberg, Home-Grown War Criminals Claim They Were Just Following Orders When They Murdered an Entire Village | p. 345 |
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