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Real-life jury trials presented from the viewpoint of a juror, involving rape, constitutional rights, assisted suicide, a battered wife who killed her husband, a father who forcibly removed his adult daughter from a cult, and a lawsuit for infliction of emotional distress. General jury instructions are in the back of the book, presenting the law that applies to each case. The reader decides on a verdict, then reads through the questions and answers...
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Federal Criminal Code and Rules provides up-to-date information on pertinent federal rules and code sections relating to criminal procedure, including recent amendments and Advisory Committee Notes that explain amendments. It includes Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of the U.S. Supreme Court, Rules for the Alien Terrorist Removal Court of the United States, Title 18 of United...
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A collection of writing by six incarcerated men, Life Sentences is a hybrid of prison memoir, philosophy, history, policy document, and manifesto. It is also a how-to guide for those who are trapped inside our own community, uninclined or unable to form loving connections with those around us, ashamed perhaps of the harm we have done is a letter of invitation, asking readers to join with the incarcerated, their families, and the editors and teachers...
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Imagine you're charged with a crime. Now you must choose between pleading guilty and receiving a shorter sentence-or going to trial and risking decades behind bars. The Vanishing Trial" focuses on four individuals who were forced to make that excruciating choice. Each was threatened with a "trial penalty," the term used to describe the substantially longer prison sentence a person receives if they exercise their constitutional right to trial instead...
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"Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains at an unprecedented high level. This book provides a survey of these reforms and explains why they have proven to be ineffective. This book: identifies the real reasons that the wave of post-2000 sentencing reform has had minimal impact on reducing national imprisonment rates; explains why reforms must target the excessive sentences imposed on violent and sexual...
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Eight men charged. Five confessions. But only one DNA match. Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? Program investigates the conviction of four men -- current and former sailors in the U.S. Navy -- for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Va., woman in 1997. In the first television interviews with the "Norfolk Four" since their release, Bikel learns of some of the high-pressure police interrogation techniques -- the...
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""In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the clients they served. When a corrupt prosecutor was determined to send as many of the notorious John Dillinger gang to death row as he could, female attorneys Jessie Levy and Bess Robbins rose to the challenge. They skillfully represented six of the gang members, a number far greater than any of their male counterparts. And yet, their story of deals gone...
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Almost everyone agrees - Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal - that America's current systems for sentencing criminal offenders are a shambles, with crazy quilts of incompatible and conflicting laws, policies, and practices in every state and the federal system. Almost everyone agrees that punishments are too severe, and too many people...
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"When Henry McCollum was condemned to death in 1983 in rural North Carolina, death sentences were commonplace. In 2015, DNA tests set McCollum free. By then, death sentences were as rare as lightning strikes. To most observers this national trend came as a surprise. What changed? Brandon Garrett hand-collected and analyzed national data, looking for causes and implications of this turnaround. End of Its Rope explains what he found, and why the death...
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Is it fair to remove judicial discretion when sentencing criminals for certain crimes? This volume presents a wide diversity of opinions from an array of experts on the impact of mandatory minimum sentencing on crime, including the "three strikes" law. Readers are asked to examine the inherent fairness of mandatory sentences. Are they discriminatory? Do they usurp judicial power and result in overcrowded prisons? Or do they protect children and deter...
80) Perry Mason
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Although Perry Mason is a lawyer by trade, he and his staff Della Street and Paul Drake spend most of their time sleuthing. Unmasking the real culprit is the only way to free their always-innocent clients.
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