Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law

by Lief, Michael S; Bycel, Ben; Caldwell, H. Mitchell

• ISBN13: 9780684859484
• ISBN10: 0684859483
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-02
• Publisher: Scribner

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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