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COCHRAN, JOHNNIE L., JR.: An entry from Thomson Gale’s West’s Encyclopedia of American Law
“West’s Encyclopedia of American Law†is 13 volumes and 5,000 entries of comprehensive information on the fascinating American Legal System and its components. Covering historical and current terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S law, West’s has been written, updated, and reviewed by lawyers and professors with the everyday user in mind. Everyone from the layperson hooked on the weekly TV courtroom procedural to the serious student can find such valuable information as brief definitions of legal jargon, exhaustive examinations of courtroom procedure, explanations of complex topics such as civil rights, biographies of standout attorneys, analyses of controversial issues, and transcripts of crucial Supreme Court decisions.
True Crime: Massachusetts: the State’s Most Notorious Criminal Cases
The harsh discipline of Puritan life bred the hard-bitten and hard-working people of Massachusetts, but did it also breed a unique type of criminal? This book explores the headline crimes of the state to find an answer. Included are the cases of the alleged axe-wielding Lizzie Borden, the executed anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, the legendary Brink’s robbery, the mysterious Boston Strangler, the Big Dan’s spectator rape, the desperate college professor who murdered a young prostitute, and the fur salesman who slaughtered his wife and unborn child in cold blood.
True Crime: Massachusetts: the State’s Most Notorious Criminal Cases
The Most Notorious Crimes in American History
The stories beguile us even as they appall us. The Lindberg baby kidnapping…the murder of Nicole Simpson…the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy…the Manson Family…the St. Valentine’s Day Masscare…the Oklahoma City bombing. Each, in its time, laid claim to being the Crime of the Century. Each was captured by the camera, either in the act or at trial. In this special edition of Life, these stories of crime and punishment, lawlessness and justice, are vividly retold.