trials, litigation, etc

"In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence--full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon--transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015."--.

Covers the trial of John "Iwan" Demjanjuk, a Nazi war criminal and postwar immigrant living and working in the United States, discussing why it took nearly sixty years to bring him to justice and revealing how American politicians and the United States military recruited "useful" Nazi war criminals to work as spies and saboteurs during the Cold War.

Chronicles the events surrounding the controversial 2000 presidential election, focusing on the legal issues that arose in the post-election period.

Analyzes the core debates surrounding the Supreme Courts 1973 decision in Roe vs Wade, traces the case's history, and studies the impact it had on American society.

A novel in free verse poems, in which visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe the Scopes "monkey trial" and its effects on that small town and its citizens.

A behind-the-scenes history of the O.J. Simpson trial, discussing the attorneys, private detectives, dog walkers, cops, forensic experts, and other people and events that played a part in the proceedings, and examining some of the questions raised by the case, such as the importance of celebrity, race, and the efficacy of the jury system.

Examines the Supreme Court case of 1803 that marked the first time that a law passed by Congress was found to be illegal according to the Constitution.

Tells the story of Andersonville, a Civil War prison camp in Georgia where thousands of Union prisoners died in the last fourteen months of the war, drawing from a variety of documents to consider whether the prison's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was justifiably convicted and hanged.

Examines the late eighteenth-century ruling by Lord Mansfield in London that set the precedent for abolishing slavery in both England and America and examines the legal and social effects among those who supported the institution.

Presents a comprehensive study of the controversial murder trial involving baseball player Ron Williamson.