The second volume in a must-have trilogy of the best Closing Arguments in American legal history Every day, Americans enjoy the freedom to decide what we do with our property, our bodies, our speech, and our votes.
A former deputy district attorney, he specializes in death-penalty litigation before the California Supreme Court..
Mitchell Caldwell is a professor at Pepperdine University School of Law.
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About the Author: Michael S Lief is a senior deputy district attorney in Ventura, California.
By providing historical and biographical details, as well as the Closing Arguments themselves, Lief and Caldwell give readers the background necessary to fully understand these important cases, bringing them vividly to life.
Anthony decision, which paved the way to success for women\'s suffrage, to the Larry Flynt trial, in which the porn king beCame an unlikely champion for freedom of speech.
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down showcases eight of the most exciting Closing Arguments in Civil law -- from the Amistad case, in which John Quincy Adams brought the injustice of slavery to the center stage of American politics, to the Susan B.
Our Civil rights have been assured by cases that have produced monumental shifts in America\'s cultural, political, and legal landscapes.
However, the rights to these freedoms have not always been guaranteed.
The second volume in a must-have trilogy of the best Closing Arguments in American legal history Every day, Americans enjoy the freedom to decide what we do with our property, our bodies, our speech, and our votes
