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Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen
July 18, 2011An excerpt from Peter Manso’s recently published book Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen.by Peter MansoIntroduction The American murder trial as...
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Mass Murder at the Teigin Bank
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The Crime That Never Happened
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Justice on Trial
Aug 13, 2012The statue of Lady Justice at Dublin CastleJustice on Trial is a landmark study of prosecutorial misconduct conducted by the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University...
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Myopia at Scotland Yard – Murder on Wimbledon Common
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The Case for Ted Kuhl’s Innocence
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The Scottsboro Boys: Jim Crow on Trial
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The Firefighter Case: Part I
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J. Edgar Hoover and the Framing of the Omaha Two
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The Case for Jean Harris’s Innocence
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Pro Bono: The 18-Year Defense of Caril Ann Fugate
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One Murder, Two Victims: The Wrongful Conviction of Ryan Ferguson
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Justice on Trial
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No More Laughs for the Fat Man: The Case of Fatty Arbuckle
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The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal
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A Quest For Closure: The Kansas City Firefighters Case Part 1
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