Law makers, law breakers and uncommon trials / Robert Aitken and Marilyn Aitken.

Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, 2007.

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Trials -- United States.

Trials -- Great Britain.

Trials -- Ireland.

I. Making a nation

1. The king who lost his head: the trial of Charles I

2. James Wilson: an unknown American founder

3. The 1798 Sedition Act: president's party prosecutes press

4. Signed, sealed, but not delivered: Marbury v. Madison

II. Dividing a nation

5. Justice Benjamin Curtis and Dred Scott

6. The long, strange case of Dr. Samuel Mudd: the Lincoln assassination

7. The unusual Judah P. Benjamin

III. Passion and murder in America

8. The life and death of George Wythe: "I am murdered"

9. The trial of Levi Weeks: Hamilton and Burr for the defense

10. Wild Bill Hickok: the two trials of Jack McCall

11. Justice Stephen Field, Justice David Terry, and Sarah Althea Hill

12. Mountain Meadows massacre

IV. Defending Irish rebels

13. A punctuation mark: Rex v. Casement

14. The spelling game: Russell's cross-examination of Pigott

V. Fighting Nazi injustice

15. Hans Frank: Hitler's lawyer

16. The Ardeatine caves

17. Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane

18. Exodus: the trial

19. Zigzag: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis

VII. The prejudice trials

20. Schumann v. Wieck: the battle for Clara

21. Whistler v. Ruskin: a question of art

22. Sir Edward Carson cross-examines Oscar Wilde

23. United States of America against one book entitled Ulysses by James Joyce

24. Pride and prejudice: the dark side of Henry Ford

25. Rosa Parks: an American icon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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