Trials Books

This is a rarity among English-language books on the subject: an examination of the posthumous appeal of Joan of Arc's case after the war. The book contains extensive excerpts from the testimony given by witnesses during the appeal, similar to "Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses" except focusing on the Rehabilitation testimony. These accounts from people who knew Joan bring the subject to life in a way that no other format can.

I read Reuban's Trial and couldn't put it down until I finished reading it. Its a story about a family that faces a holocaust,and it makes one realize that the same thing could happen to anyone. I especially enjoyed the parts about the soldiers in battle, and the street people with their struggles. This is a book I recommend because it shows the struggle of mankind against the forces of evil

Hasian develops his innovative, soundly-based conception that most trials--i. e., prosecutions--relating to the genocide of Jews by Nazi Germany--Judeocide--were not strictly exercises in making criminal accusations, presenting evidence, and seeking a verdict. As Hasian convincingly demonstrates and expounds, these trials had a major role in making widely known the systematic atrocities against Jews throughout Europe in World War II and from this, the formation of the subject of the Holocaust. The Nuremberg trials conducted by the victorious United States and its allies closely following WWII only randomly and sketchily broached the genocide against the Jews. It wasn't until decades after the War that particular individuals such as Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk were tried for their connection to what came to be known as the Holocaust. As an Israeli journalist wrote, "[prior] to the Eichmann trial, what we call the Holocaust did not exist as a collective story." Hasian suggests that maybe the conception of the Holocaust did exist with some persons, but the Eichmann trial "helped turn [this Holocaust] into a more didactic tale." The basic elements of this "tale" came to permeate not only the Israeli legal system, but also that of the United States, as seen in the Demjanjuk trial, and of other democratic countries. Hasian--associate professor of Communication at the U. of Utah and on the editorial board of the journal "Rhetoric and Public Affairs"--does not suggest that such trials were in any way baseless, wrong-headed, or were show trials. His material and analyses are much more subtle and revealing about the motives for and effects of trials. He shows that trials, like the media of novels, films, or journalism, help to bring elaboration to certain historical and communal episodes and in so doing shape a society's memories of them.

Elderly and gay Francis Richmond utilizes his connections to the social and political English aristocracy to attend all the parties and galas of the rich and famous. Francis uses these events to gather gossip to record in his diary. When he dies, his boy toy inherits this titillating piece of scandal mongering. He sells the diary to Digby Price, owner of a London paper.

In one diary entry Francis claims is to have observed the Minister of Defense Procurement Richard Tancred in secret meetings with defense contractor Oscar Sleaven. Digby has a score to settle with Tancred and exposes the Minister's corruption in his paper. Tancred resigns from government service and sues Digby for libel, taking their squabble into the courtroom, a place where lies are the norm.

This British legal procedural is strong on characterizations yet contains an enigmatic plot that leaves the reader wondering what is going on. THE RICHMOND DIARY exemplifies to the audience an astute look into the British judicial system. Peter Rawlinson establishes himself as more than just a credible legal thriller author. He proves he belongs with the sub-genre's elite.

Harriet Klausner

The first amendment clashes with the sixth amendment more often than one would think. "Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, & Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart" is an examination of the modern media and its interference with the court system as people attempt to get a fair trial in today's society. A deft examination that hopes to find the fine line that can lie between the two peacefully, "Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, & Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart" is a top pick for community library law collections.

Over the last 5 years I only battle against lawyers paid by the big business insurance industry. My practice is insurance breach of contract law and auto. I hold myself out as a trial lawyer because I do not accept the crap offers from the claims assessment software that every insurer uses to evaluate human life. To that end, in order to do right by your clients you must challenge the insurers of your clients or the people who harm your clients (we can not sue the insurer of the negligent driver directly) And you must be armed with proven techniques that work. That is what this book is, one of those books you tab, highlight, copy, reuse, a reference tool. This book is a must, an absolute must for anyone dealing with insurers in any capacity. It is chocked full of useful, practicable information that you can use right away. It teaches you how to teach a jury on what 'reasonable' means when they delay and deny meritorious claims. If you are a mill and settle every case without filing, accepting the low ball offers, not doing right by your client, etc., then just keep doing what you've always done and you'll get what you always gotten. But if you correct the injustices, fight for what is right, are on the side of society that helps people, not corporations, then you must by this book and use it. I have read all of David Ball's books, attended ATLA juror bias college, conventions, books on closing, jury bias, Jury Works, TLC, NITA, etc. and with all of that I found this book very useful. I refer to it before every deposition, trial, etc. I do not know the authors of the book, (I wish I did) but they are super accomplished trial lawyers. I speak from my heart on a book that will help people who care about people - and that means winning jury trials because that is the only check on our society. Remember what Thomas Jefferson said, "the right to a jury trial is more important that the right to vote." If you practice insurance bad faith law, auto law, or any law where insurance is involved, you must own this book. (...)

This is a reprint of Upham's two-volume book originally published in 1867. It is the definitive work on the witch hunt of 1692 and I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the Salem trials.

This is the most important and accessable resourse for anyone intersested in the Salem Witch Trials. It seems a real shame that a person can buy Journey albumn released ten years ago but books go out of print so quickly, especially books as vital as this one. Let's hope the publish on demand people flourish!

I read "The Crucible" in my senior year of High School, and I had some ghosts from it; I would say that this was my first real taste of the Puritan faith reading that story, and now that I had a chance to look further into the story I found it to be rather disturbing. Not just because it deals with Witchcraft, but I stopped short of calling the Puritan faith a cult. To me cults are bad news where you get brainwashed, and conditioned to think a certain way. Well our founding fathers would come over in the 17th century, and to have religious freedom from the Church of England, and it's rituals. However, the Puritans involved in this fracas wound up being worse than pagans, and the people from the Church Of England. The Puritans believed in the Bible as the infalliable word of God. That is a healthy way of looking at it, but they picked the legal ends of the Bible, and ignored the love, and grace end of the Bible. The Puritan leaders in Increase and Cotton Mather, and Samuel Parris would rule colonial Massachussettes with fists of iron, and drew up all kinds of codes of moral behavior where citizens were forced to be prim and proper 24/7 with no signs of doing the simple things like a husband and wife kissing in public. The girls would be housebound, and virtual slaves to the men, and still having to carry the weight of the Puritan laws around thier necks like an albatross. Out of this came one of the biggest genocides in American History. It started small as Samuel Parris's daughter, and neice would begin to show signs of illness both mental and physical, and causing them to roll on the ground, and moaning. Then came the arrests as the cause was limited to being a case of witchcraft. The two girls obviously had spells put on them by a witch, or so the public thought...after all there was no physical ailment there to cause the woes, so it has to be witchcraft. I honestly believe that witchcraft played a part, but the bottom line I feel that it turned into a circus as Cotton Mather and Samuel Parris began to run the hunt. Increase Mather would supply the man to run Massachusettes according to England. However, Mather, Parris, and the other major Puritan leaders lead the investigations. Then when one of the accused a minister named George Burroughs recited the Lord's Prayer to perfection Cotton Mather would change the subject, and say that Burroughs was a agent of Satan because while he was considered a minister he was never ordained. I didn't know in order to be a Christian you had to be ordained as a minister. Burroughs was just one of 19 who would be subject to persecution, and most eventually death. Lives were changed, and people lost desire to follow God, and many were left homeless and penniless. I feel witchcraft was responsible, but I feel that legalistic religious leaders were just as bad if not worse. I also can't help, but wonder if maybe the girls were doing this to get some attention as well. After all they were banished to a life of slavery. Thier parents who followed the Puritan faith would not show them the physical love mostly, and then tell them that if they don't make tiddlywinks God would banish them into hell anyway, and also these were girls who really didn't have any rights at all. The town of Salem has tried to diffuse the stench that this created by making it into a tourist area, and a place of rememberance. I just feel that no matter how much money, and how many apologies we make to the people who suffered through the past will ever find healing. Towards the end of the book I felt that charges should've been brought up against the Mathers, and Samuel Parris for the slaughter of these people. However, as I said I stopped short of calling the Puritans a cult.

This is a fantastic book for the history of witch craft enthusiast. I loved it and learned a lot that I didn't already know.