trials

Sixteen-year-old Aura of Baltimore, Maryland, reluctantly works at her aunt's law firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it becomes personal when her boyfriend, a promising musician, dies and persistently haunts her.

Highlights six of the most-watched American trials of the twentieth century.

Argues that antislavery Northerners should have made more accommodations for slavery than those that were laid out in the Constitution.

Provides descriptions of the punishments meted out to offenders in fifty criminal cases in England from around the time of Shakespeare and Milton, based on news reports of the time.

An illustrated telling of the Asian and South American folktale in which a boy loses his breakfast money after hiding it under a stone, and the stone is put on trial for stealing it.

The story of a midwife who makes a decision to save a baby's life when she believes that the mother has died.

Examines several high-profile court cases of American history including the impeachment cases of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, the Salem witch trials of the seventeenth century, the famous Civil Rights issues of Brown v. Board of Education and the Dred Scott decision, the Lindbergh kidnapping, and Lizzie Borden.

Twelve-year-old Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case.

Examines the 1972 Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia in regard to the death penalty.