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Cover
Colophon
Also by Michael S Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction: The Closing Argument Chronicles
Chapter One: When Mob Rule Trumps Rule of Law: The U.S. Supreme Court steps in when local authorities don’t act to prevent lynchings
Chapter Two: When the Constable Blunders: The fruit of the poisonous tree sets the guilty free
Chapter Three: Rules of Engagement: Randy Weaver and the Ruby Ridge killings
Chapter Four: Defending the Despised: Founding Father fights to save British troops from the gallows after the Boston Massacre
Chapter Five: “You Have the Right to Remain Silent”: The rapist and the chief justice redefine the use of confessions and police interrogations
Chapter Six: The Black Doctor and the White Mob: Clarence Darrow puts racism on trial and proves the home is every American’s castle
Chapter Seven: The Trial of the (Nineteenth) Century: The killer congressman, the philandering district attorney, and the first use of the temporary insanity defense
Chapter Eight: Genius, Scoundrel, Traitor: Revolutionary War hero, former vice president Aaron Burr faces the hangman and lays the groundwork for treason prosecutions
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