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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Objection! Objection! Nancy Grace,Diane Clehane,Nancy Grace A compelling, intelligent and gutsy read, OBJECTION! captures Nancy’s inimitable voice that has become a source of insight to millions of television viewers and radio listeners around the country. OB… OL15148080W
The notorious Dr. Flippin The notorious Dr. Flippin Jamie Q. Tallman "Describes the life of Dr. Charles Flippin, an early twentieth-century African American physician in rural Kansas and Nebraska. Flippin was charged with and prosecuted for performing illegal abortion… OL16623773W
The Big Trial The Big Trial Lawrence M. Friedman The trial of O.J. Simpson was a sensation, avidly followed by millions of people, but it was also, in a sense, nothing new. One hundred years earlier the Lizzie Borden trial had held the nation in th… OL17200416W
A civil action A civil action Jonathan Harr A Civil Action is a 1996 work of non-fiction by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller and won the National Book Critics … OL1856373W
The enemy combatant papers The enemy combatant papers Karen J. Greenberg xxxiii, 1008 p. : 27 cm OL18787709W
The lynching The lynching Laurence Leamer "The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most… OL19668258W
Lindbergh Lindbergh Noel Behn It is known as the crime of the century - the infamous kidnapping and murder of the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1932. But nearly six decades after Bruno Richard Hauptmann died … OL3931234W
Proximity to Death Proximity to Death William S. McFeely "On a misty September morning in rural Georgia, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian found himself cast in a role that he had never imagined: an expert witness in the sentencing hearing of a convicted … OL3957627W
Disorder in the Court Disorder in the Court Charles M. Sevilla Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy.… OL4117201W
Money To Burn Money To Burn Michael Mewshaw In 1985, tobacco heiress Margaret Benson and two of her children were victims of a car bombing. One year later, her surviving son was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders. Here is the story… OL4274275W
Special effects Special effects Ron LaBrecque An investigative reporter probes the legal proceedings following the death of three people on the set of the movie "The Twilight Zone," pointing to culpable individuals who escaped questioning, analy… OL4623122W
Tinker Vs Des Moines Tinker Vs Des Moines Doreen Rappaport Using edited transcripts of testimony, recreates the trial of John Tinker and two other students who were suspended from school for protesting the Vietnam War, and invites the reader to act as judge … OL463888W
Snow Falling on Cedars Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with murder. The year is 19… OL8036957W