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1	Lucky more books like this by Alice Sebold Raped and beaten as an 18-year-old Syracuse University student, Alice Sebold recounts the story of her rape, the trial and conviction of her rapist, and her recovery. Her book also tells the story of its own coming into being. Immediately after the rape, Sebold vowed to write about it, and worked it out in various forms before sculpting it into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Fury more books like this by Robert K Tanenbaum The Central Park Jogger case clearly inspired this 17th installment in the Butch Karp/Marlene Ciampi legal thriller series. Twelve years ago, Liz Tyler, a young white woman out jogging in Coney Island, was savagely raped and beaten; unfortunately, her head injuries made her a poor witness. The police fingered five African-American men, four of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Advocate's Devil more books like this by Alan M Dershowitz In hot pursuit of a high profile case, lawyer Abe Ringel offers to defend a young basketball star accused of rape. As the case unfolds, Ringel must search his conscience to find where his greater responsibility lies--with his client or with the safety of his community. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South more books like this by Dan T Carter In a chapter written especially for this revised edition of his modern classic, Carter recounts the latest turns in the case. Included are the surprising story of the last surviving Scottsboro defendant and the vivid description of Victoria Price's libel suit against the network that televised the drama and subsequent trial--presumably the last of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit more books like this by Kerry Max Cook In the tradition of "Dead Man Walking" and "The Executioner's Song" comes a harrowing first-person story of the longest-tenured death row inmate in U.S. history to be freed after a wrongful conviction led to his serving 22 years on Texas's death row. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven more books like this by Cynthia B Herrup In an examination of a sex scandal of 17th-century England, Herrup presents a strikingly new interpretation of the case of the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven and of the sexual and social anxieties it cast into such bold relief. This was a case that brought disgrace to the ruling class and ended with the beheading of the earl. 8 halftones. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Stories of Scottsboro more books like this by James E. Goodman An astonishing and innovative retelling of one of the landmark cases in the civil rights battles of this century--in which nine young black men were tried and convicted three separate times for raping two white women, and were finally freed by the Supreme Court. "A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction".- ... see all copies from $2.74! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Halls of Justice more books like this by Lee Gruenfeld A low-level thug rapes the Pierman sisters. The beautiful twins--one a defense attorney and one a caterer--are shocked when, through connections and a technicality, he gets off. When one of the Piermans blows the thug away in a restaurant, the country sympathizes. But the deputy D.A., Sal Milano, still has to prosecute. And to further complicate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Woman Scorned more books like this by Peggy Reeves Sanday, Peggy R Sandy This bracing study of American sexual culture and the politics of acquaintance rape identifies and examines the sexual stereotypes that continue to obstruct justice and diminish women. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.69! \| first editions
10	Rape in Paradise more books like this by Theon Wright see all copies from $1.99! new only from $69.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Due Process more books like this by Catherine Arnold Defense attorney Karen Perry-Mondori takes the case of accused murderer, Jack Palmer. Palmer insists he is innocent, and Karen is intent on getting to the truth. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12 view cover	Exit to Freedom more books like this by Calvin C Johnson, Jr., Greg Hampikian, Barry Scheck (Afterword by) Johnson tells the moving story of how he survived 16 years in Georgia prisonsbefore being exonerated on the basis of DNA evidence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Trial of Passion more books like this by William Deverell " Brimming with sardonic wit and zippy phrases...roller coaster twists of passion" --"The Toronto Star"Arthur Beauchamp is Vancouver's leading criminal attorney. He's also an alcoholic with an unfaithful wife and a desperate need for solitude. So when he turns his back on his life and settles down on an island off the Pacific coast, it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Kobe Bryant: The Game of His Life more books like this by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, Jennifer Stevens see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Illegal Motion more books like this by Grif Stockley When small-time lawyer Gideon Page agrees to defend Dade Cunningham on charges of rape, he doesn't realize what he's taken on. Dade, a star wide receiver for the University of Arkansas, is poor and black. His accuser, a pretty co-ed, is wealthy and white. And Gideon is suddenly at the center of a racially and sexually charged case that will earn ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $62.92! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	A Question of Consent: Innocence and Complicity in the Glen Ridge Rape Case more books like this by Peter Laufer In 1993, a fascinating courtroom drama unfolded in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, as defense attorneys portrayed a mentally retarded rape victim as a seductress and her four rapists as good all-American boys. Here is the shocking true story of that crime and the troubling questions it raises about American society and sexuality. 8-page photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $41.10! \| first editions
17 view cover	Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice more books like this by Bill Lueders "Cry Rape" dramatically exposes the criminal justice system's capacity for error as it recounts one woman's courageous battle in the face of adversity. In September 1997, a visually impaired woman named Patty was raped by an intruder in her home in Madison, Wisconsin. The rookie detective assigned to her case came to doubt Patty's account and ... see all copies from $4.90! new only from $15.02! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Illegal Motion: A Gideon Page Mystery more books like this by Grif Stockley Arkansas attorney Gideon Page has no idea what's in store for him when he agrees to defend Dade Cunningham, the Razorbacks' star receiver, against a charge of rape. But Dade is black and his accuser is white, and Gideon must now deal with an explosive case that causes a sensation in a state obsessed with football--and raises uncomfortable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Scottsboro Boys more books like this by James Haskins see all copies from $1.99! new only from $92.67!
20 view cover	Matar un Ruisenor more books like this by Harper Lee Two children in the South are introduced to the subject of prejudice when their father defends a falsely accused black man. In Spanish. see all copies from $31.20! new only from $250.84!
21 view cover	Lucky: A Memoir more books like this by Alice Sebold Raped and beaten as an 18-year-old Syracuse University student, Alice Sebold recounts the story of her rape, the trial and conviction of her rapist, and her recovery. Her book also tells the story of its own coming into being. Immediately after the rape, Sebold vowed to write about it, and worked it out in various forms before sculpting it into ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $15.88!
22 view cover	A\Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial more books like this by Peggy Reeves Sanday, Peggu R Sanday In this bracing study of American sexual culture see all copies from $2.81! first editions
23 view cover	The Martinsville Seven more books like this by Eric W Rise In January 1949 a thirty-two-year-old white woman in Martinsville, Virginia, accused seven young black men of raping her. Within two days state and local police had rounded up all the suspects and extracted confessions from them. In a series of trials that lasted eleven days, all were found guilty and sentenced to death - a sentence that was ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $22.20! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Mother's Story: My Battle to Free David Milgaard more books like this by Joyce Milgaard, Peter Edwards see all copies from $2.95! new only from $62.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Powell V. Alabama: The Scottsboro Boys and American Justice more books like this by Gerald Horne Examines the individuals and the issues involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which affirmed the right of an accused person to effective legal representation. see all copies from $3.89!

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