trials (murder)

An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes.

Based on a true story, in April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, Charles Mears, a white, eighteen-year-old reporter, covers his first murder case. It is the trial of an uneducated African American girl named Virginia Christian who stands accused of killing her white employer. Virginia died in the electric chair, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. The book tells the story of the trial and its aftermath using actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts.

A comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago lynched for a flirtation with a white woman at a country store in the Mississippi Delata.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script, as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

The case against a young man boy accused of murder looks open and shut. But passions ignite and prejudices emerge in the cramped, sweltering jury room as one man holds out for acquittal.

Presents the television drama, "Twelve Angry Men," which focuses on a murder trial and twelve male jurors who must decide the fate of a nineteen-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his father to death.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

"Interweaving an insider's account of the true crime saga behind 'Making a Murderer' with other controversial cases from his career, Steven Avery's defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth a persuasive call for reform"--OCLC.