Law Makers, Law Breakers and Uncommon Trials

by Aitken, Robert; Aitken, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9781590318805
• ISBN10: 1590318803
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: American Bar Association

Summary

From the divine right of Charles I to the civil rights struggle of Rosa Parks, 25 non-fiction stories provide a panorama of people whose actions helped form our legal system and our world. Constitution makers, Civil War enemies, Irish rebels, World War II Nazis, murder and passion, art and prejudice appear in a page-turner that reads like a mystery novel. Did Dr. Samuel Mudd participate in the Lincoln assassination? Was Captain Charles McVay III responsible for the sinking of the USS Indianapolis? Did Levi Weeks kill pretty Elma Sands? Read about unknown founder James Wilson and Hitler's lawyer, Hans Frank. Discover the back stories of landmark cases and enjoy the cross examination and trial skills of lawyers in top form.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
About the Authors	p. xix
Making a Nation	p. 1
The King Who Lost His Head: The Trial of Charles I	p. 3
James Wilson: An Unknown American Founder	p. 15
The 1798 Sedition Act: President's Party Prosecutes Press	p. 31
Signed, Sealed, but Not Delivered: Marbury v. Madison	p. 43
Dividing a Nation	p. 53
Justice Benjamin Curtis and Dred Scott	p. 55
The Long, Strange Case of Dr. Samuel Mudd: The Lincoln Assassination	p. 73
The Unusual Judah P. Benjamin	p. 89
Passion and Murder in America	p. 101
The Life and Death of George Wythe: "I Am Murdered"	p. 103
The Trial of Levi Weeks: Hamilton and Burr for the Defense	p. 115
Wild Bill Hickok: The Two Trials of Jack McCall	p. 133
Justice Stephen Field, Justice David Terry, and Sarah Althea Hill	p. 147
Mountain Meadows Massacre	p. 161
Defending Irish Rebels	p. 173
A Punctuation Mark: Rex v. Casement	p. 175
The Spelling Game: Russell's Cross-Examination of Pigott	p. 201
Fighting Nazi Injustice	p. 215
Hans Frank: Hitler's Lawyer	p. 217
The Ardeatine Caves	p. 237
Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane	p. 247
Exodus: The Trial	p. 261
Zigzag: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis	p. 275
The Prejudice Trials	p. 293
Schumann v. Wieck: The Battle for Clara	p. 295
Whistler V. Ruskin: A Question of Art	p. 303
Sir Edward Carson Cross-Examines Oscar Wilde	p. 319
United States of America against One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce	p. 337
Pride and Prejudice: The Dark Side of Henry Ford	p. 351
Rosa Parks: An American Icon	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 385
Index	p. 397
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