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Judith Catchpole was tried before the first all-woman jury to serve in colonial Maryland. [3] The judicial practices of common law in colonial America often arose from the need to accommodate to practical situations. In the case of Judith Catchpole, the expertise of women was needed to decide whether she had been pregnant and given birth to a ...
Illustration of the woman of Thebez dropping the millstone on Abimelech, from Charles Foster, The Story of the Bible, 1884. The woman of Thebez is a character in the Hebrew Bible, appearing in the Book of Judges. She dropped a millstone from a wall in order to kill Abimelech. Abimlech had laid siege to Thebez and entered the city. The residents ...
Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court which held that systematically excluding women from a venire, or jury pool, by requiring (only) them to actively register for jury duty violated the defendant's right to a representative venire. [1] The court overturned Hoyt v.
In 1912, the poisoner Frederick Seddon (leaning on the dock, left) was sentenced to death by Mr Justice Bucknill wearing a black cap (right) "May God have mercy upon your soul" or "may God have mercy on your soul" is a phrase used within courts in various legal systems by judges pronouncing a sentence of death upon a person found guilty of a crime that carries a death sentence.
The San Luis Obispo woman who admitted selling fentanyl to a Templeton man who died of an overdose pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter Friday, three weeks after a jury was unable to reach ...
A Texas judge said that a mother who has been on death row since 2008 over the death of her toddler is "actually innocent," with a decision on her release now in the hands of Texas’s Court of ...
Through her “tell-it-like-it-is approach,” Judge Mablean Ephriam brings joy, laughter and truth to the courtroom. In October 1998, Twentieth Century The post Judge Mablean reflects on her 20 ...
State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave was an 1855 murder trial held in the Circuit Court of Callaway County, Missouri, in which an enslaved woman named Celia was tried for the first-degree murder of her owner, Robert Newsom. Celia was convicted by a jury of twelve white men [1] and sentenced to death.