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1	Lucky more books like this by Alice Sebold add to wishlist 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 $5.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Fury more books like this by Robert K Tanenbaum add to wishlist 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 $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	It's Not about the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered more books like this by Don Yaeger, Mike Pressler add to wishlist What had begun as an off-campus team party with two hired strippers would accelerate into a rape investigation that exposed prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy police work, an administration's rush to judgment, as well as the media's disregard for the facts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South more books like this by Dan T Carter add to wishlist 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! \| signed copies \| 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 add to wishlist 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 $1.99! \| 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 add to wishlist Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge-these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines. But in 17th century England, a sex scandal in which the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven was executed for crimes so horrible that "a Christian man ought scarce to name them" threatened the very foundations of aristocratic hierarchy. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Scottsboro more books like this by Ellen Feldman add to wishlist Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, "Scottsboro" is a powerful novel about race, class, sex, and a lie that refuses to die. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Kobe Bryant: The Game of His Life more books like this by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, Jennifer Stevens add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Illegal Motion more books like this by Grif Stockley add to wishlist 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! first editions \| SVS
10	The Martinsville Seven more books like this by Eric W Rise add to wishlist This text examines the Martinsville case, in 1949, in which a white woman in Martinsville accused seven young black men of raping her. They were found guilty and sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out, amid a storm of protest from civil-rights advocates and death-penalty opponents. see all copies from $8.53! new only from $13.99! \| first editions
11 view cover	Due Process more books like this by Catherine Arnold add to wishlist Jack Palmer stands accused of murdering the husband of a popular celebrity with whom he's having an affair. In spite of the mounting evidence against him, Karen Perry-Mondori, a young criminal defence attorney, agrees to defend him. Karen must find some clues before the case destroys them both. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
12 view cover	Trial of Passion more books like this by William Deverell add to wishlist " 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 $9.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	A Matter of Chastity: The High Plains Saga of a Woman's Revenge more books like this by Douglas Yocom add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Exit to Freedom more books like this by Calvin C Johnson, Greg Hampikian, Barry Scheck (Afterword by) add to wishlist "With God as my witness, I have been falsely accused of these crimes. I did not commit them. I'm an innocent man". In 1983 Calvin C. Johnson Jr. spoke these words to a judge who later handed down a life sentence for rape and related crimes. Johnson spent 16 years behind bars before he was freed in 1999 after DNA testing conclusively ruled out the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Halls of Justice: 8 more books like this by Lee Gruenfeld add to wishlist 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 $7.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Consequences, the Criminal Case of David Parker Ray more books like this by J E Sparks add to wishlist David Parker Ray was a serial criminal sadist whose crime spree ran unchecked for 45 years and may have included as many as 100 murders. This well-documented book, written from the law enforcement point of view, begins with the crime scene discovery and takes the reader through the convoluted judicial process to its final resolution and unanswered ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $11.56! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A Question of Consent: Innocence and Complicity in the Glen Ridge Rape Case more books like this by Peter Laufer add to wishlist 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 $28.26! \| first editions
18 view cover	Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice more books like this by Bill Lueders add to wishlist "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 $1.99! new only from $14.78! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change more books like this by Lisa M Cuklanz add to wishlist Why has so much of the public discussion of rape focused on a few specific cases, and to what extent has this discussion incorporated the feminist perspective on rape? Rape on Trial explores these questions and provides answers based on a detailed see all copies from $3.98! new only from $18.40! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial more books like this by James A Miller add to wishlist In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the defendants were sentenced to death - making Scottsboro one of the worst travesties of justice to take place in the post-Reconstruction South. 'Remembering Scottsboro" ... see all copies from $27.95! new only from $27.95!
21 view cover	Heavy Justice: Trial of Mike Tyson more books like this by Randy Roberts, J Gregory Randy Roberts Garrison add to wishlist Heavy Justice is the inside story of one of the great courtroom battles of our time. Gregory Garrison, the special prosecutor in the case, and Randy Roberts, historian and eminent boxing scholar, recount the trial that put heavyweight champion Mike Tyson behind bars. With all the drama, verve, and procedural detail of a novel by John Grisham or ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.86! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Deshonrada more books like this by Mukhtar Mai add to wishlist Considered for the TIME's 100 world's most influential people. A chilling testimony to the deepest levels of human cruelty, this is the testimony of Mukhtar Mai, a 28-year old Pakistani woman. In 2002 she was sentenced by Meerwala's tribal counsel to endure a collective rape in redress for an action committed by her 13-year old brother ?when in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.88! \| SVS
23 view cover	Illegal Motion: A Gideon Page Mystery more books like this by Grif Stockley add to wishlist 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 $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Not Guilty: The Surprising Trial of Gerald Regan more books like this by Stephen Kimber add to wishlist The public was shocked when reports began to circulate that Gerald Regan, a former premier of Nova Scotia and federal cabinet minister, had committed dozens of sexual assaults on teenage girls and young women over a period of decades. Charges were laid and a major trial took place in 1998. The book is powerful in its contrast of public life and ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $5.99! \| first editions
25	Rape! : One victim's story : a documentary more books like this by W. Ware Lynch add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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