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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
From guns to gavels	Bill Neal	"Linked accounts of frontier crimes and trials from 1885 to 1929 across West Texas, Indian and New Mexico Territories, and Montana trace the evolution of criminal justice in the American West"--Provi…	OL11994666W
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
Early Cold War Spies	John Earl Haynes	Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothi…	OL15182316W
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	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 Question of Loyalty	Douglas C. Waller	A Question of Loyalty plunges into the seven-week Washington trial of Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell, the hero of the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I and the man who proved in 1921 that plane…	OL1837603W
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	Karen J. Greenberg	xxxiii, 1008 p. : 27 cm	OL18787709W
The battle over the meaning of everything	Gordy Slack	A compelling eyewitness account of the recent courtroom drama in Dover, Pennsylvania that put evolution on trial. Journalist Gordy Slack offers a riveting, personal, and often amusing first-hand ac…	OL1903890W
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
Lincoln's greatest case	Brian McGinty	The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.	OL19992259W
Indelible ink	Richard Kluger	In 1733, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching the New-York Weekly Journal, which assailed the British governor as corrupt and arrogant -- a direct challenge…	OL20040473W
Using Terri	Jon Eisenberg	The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious …	OL276673W
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	John Berendt	Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceShots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in …	OL3524935W
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	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	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	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	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
Incident at Howard Beach	Charles J. Hynes	Late on the night of December 19, 1986, four black men were driving through the all-white community of Howard Beach, in the New York City borough of Queens, when their car broke down. By the early ho…	OL4796839W