trials

Using transcripts of testimony, recreates the trial of John Tinker and two others who were suspended from school for protesting the Vietnam War, and invites the reader to act as judge and jury.

San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, the subject of a police brutality trial after a shoot-out involving two teens, retreats to Half Moon Bay to get away from the media circus and becomes embroiled in the investigation of a series of murders that puts her in mind of an unsolved case from her rookie years.

Lawyers face off in 1925 Dayton, Tennessee in the Scopes Monkey Trial, which determined the legality of teaching evolution versus creation in the classroom.

Describes the twists and turns in an actual New Orleans court case of 1843 where the identity of Sally Miller, is questioned and has everything to do with her status as a slave.

Studies the 1973 case in which Alan Bakke challenged a California medical school's policy of holding seats for minority students; and discusses the impact of the lawsuit on subsequent affirmative action programs.

Presents an illustrated history of the witch trials in the English colonial town called Salem, where people's mental illness was mistaken for witchcraft, and discusses the role of Reverend Samuel Parris and various arrests, punishments and wrongful deaths of people whose behavior was misunderstood, and includes a glossary.

The Big Four in the tobacco industry think they have all their bases covered in an upcoming trial in which a widow is suing for the smoking-related death of her husband, but they did not count on an inside operator who has a personal grudge and a sure-fire plan to bring them down.

The story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy-the mysterious abduction of their young son.

Discusses women who participated in litigation and the legal process during sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, describing the rights of women under different jurisdictions and how female litigants used the law, and examining the language and tactics women used to plead within a national equity court.

Explains elements of the judicial process including civil and criminal court trials, the roles of judges and juries, degrees of criminality, and ways in which restitution can be enforced.