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Reston hires a high-priced lawyer, James Gordon Blane, a man known to do anything it takes to win a case. Blane makes few friends because the victim was a popular figure in the community while the Restons are not popular with anyone. But his skillful cross-examination of the local sheriff, Nick Hoak, results in Reston being found not guilty.
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls is a 1994 book written by Mary Pipher.This book examines the effects of societal pressures on American adolescent girls, and utilizes many case studies from the author's experience as a therapist. [1]
The case was controversial because eight years elapsed after Fuller-Sandys and Stephens died before the police decided to investigate possible links between the two deaths; because convictions were secured without forensic evidence, and legal immunity was granted to four alleged witnesses [2] [3] – two of whom later recanted their original ...
The Bierenbaum case was the subject of the 2001 New York Times non-fiction bestseller book The Surgeon's Wife. [5] It was the basis of the plot of the episode "The Good Doctor" in the first season of Law and Order: Criminal Intent and also one of the stories in the television show Dominick Dunne: Power, Privilege, & Justice on Court TV.
Given the choice to abandon or abridge the requirement of probable cause for arrest in the case of fine-only misdemeanors, the court ruled that the Fourth Amendment imposed the same standard for all crimes: probable cause. [citation needed] The court's decision ultimately involved the extent of law-enforcement discretion in exercising their duties.
A kinship diagram of theoretical influences on Gayle Rubin's landmark article "The Traffic in Women". Rubin's article is about fully understanding and accounting for the generalized oppression of women in the world—in both industrial capitalist and other kinds of societies.
The body of Jennifer Gail Paxton, 36, was in a freezer for 8 or 9 months before it was hidden under a bed, ... Attorneys make their case in Jennifer Gail Paxton murder trial. Gannett.
A 1999 study on the reading levels of Caldecott recipients suggested that most winners were written at the elementary age level, with the average reading level having decreased over time. [15] A 2007 study of Caldecott recipients found that the prevalence and importance of female characters had risen and fallen several times over the history of ...