Wilkes On Trial

Author : Charles M. Sevilla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345375643
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilkes on Trial written by Charles M. Sevilla and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a graffiti-covered wall, the State v. Diderot case has legendary defense attorney John Wilkes' name written all over it. The victim is pretty, blind, white, and defenseless, and her alleged attacker is anything but. Lyle Diderot has a face that would terrify his own mother, not to mention prospective jurors. He's the longtime leader of the Whiz Kids, a street gang that got its name from the obscene acts it performs on a fallen enemy. Anyone who tangles with this bunch ends up "yeller" in more ways than one -- a fact that has not gone unnoticed by Judge Yulburton Abraham Knott. Judge Y. Knott would sooner give the Son of Sam instant parole to a nunnery that Diderot a fair shake and Wilkes feels he's more likely to get justice from the KGB than from Knott and his reputable chamber of horrors. But Judge Knott won't be getting the last word: he's soon found slumped over his desk with a knife in his back. And Wilkes is the prime suspect from a drunken night he can barely remember . . . .

Author : Thomas J. Reed
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611478286
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avenging Lincoln’s Death written by Thomas J. Reed and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avenging Lincoln’s Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth’s Accomplices is an examination of the 1865 military commission trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin who murdered President Abraham Lincoln. The book analyzes the trial transcript and other relevant evidence relating to the guilt of Booth’s alleged accomplices, as well as a careful application of basic constitutional law principles to the jurisdiction of the military commission and the fundamental fairness of the trial. The author found that the military commission trial was unconstitutional and unfair because Congress never authorized trial by military commission for these eight civilians. President Johnson exceeded the scope of his authority as commander in chief by ordering the accomplices to be tried by military commission. He failed to follow the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863 that required him to turn over the alleged accomplices to civilian authorities for prosecution. The accomplices were convicted on perjured testimony and the Government was allowed to drag in unrelated evidence of Confederate atrocities to poison the minds of the panel of officers.

Author : Winston Schoonover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345372550
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilkes written by Winston Schoonover and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Greer
Publisher : Wyrick
ISBN 13 : 9780941711296
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presumed Guilty written by Ben Greer and published by Wyrick. This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the only person found not guilty in Operation Lost Trust.

Author : George Alfred Townsend
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465532072
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth written by George Alfred Townsend and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1865-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Stacton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174712
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Judges of the Secret Court written by David Stacton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Stacton’s The Judges of The Secret Court is a long-lost triumph of American fiction as well as one of the finest books ever written about the Civil War. Stacton’s gripping and atmospheric story revolves around the brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, members of a famous theatrical family. Edwin is a great actor, himself a Hamlet-like character whose performance as Hamlet will make him an international sensation. Wilkes is a blustering mediocrity on stage who is determined, however, to be an actor in history, and whose assassination of Abraham Lincoln will change America. Stacton’s novel about how the roles we play become, for better or for worse, the lives we lead, takes us back to the day of the assassination, immersing us in the farrago of bombast that fills Wilkes’s head while following his footsteps up to the fatal encounter at Ford’s Theatre. The political maneuvering around Lincoln’s deathbed and Wilkes’s desperate flight and ignominious capture then set the stage for a political show trial that will condemn not only the guilty but the—at least relatively—innocent. For as Edwin Booth broods helplessly many years later, and as Lincoln, whose tragic death and wisdom overshadow this tale, also knew, “We are all accessories before or after some fact. . . . We are all guilty of being ourselves.”

Author : Roger Wilkes
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780333722
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Famous Trials written by Roger Wilkes and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 35 most famous trials of the 20th century, as recorded by the people who were there including Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Brian Masters, Damon Runyon and other star turns in true crime writing. Among the cases featured: the longest ever US trial, of deadly duo Bianchi and Buono for the Hillside Stranglings of 12 young women; Brady and Hindley - the iconic case of multiple child murder by a couple obsessed with sadism, Nazism and pornography; America's trial of the 1990s - O.J. Simpson; the media frenzy around Bruno Hauptmann's alleged kidnap and murder of the infant son of American hero, Charles Lindbergh; gagged press during the 1968 trial of eleven-year-old Mary Bell, convicted for killing two little boys; Oscar Wilde - one of the earliest trials to earn blanket press coverage; and the nine-month trial of 'one of the most evil, satanic men who ever walked the face of the earth', Charles Manson.

Author : William L. Richter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781627872706
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assassinator written by William L. Richter and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if John Wilkes Booth were tried for assassinating Abraham Lincoln? Fleeing south after shooting President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was cornered in a barn in Virginia and mortally wounded when he refused to surrender to pursuing federal cavalrymen. His death some hours later denied the nation a trial that might have revealed his motives and possible links to the Confederate government. In this riveting tale, historian William L. Richter continues his study of what Booth believed he was accomplishing in figuratively firing the last shot of what the South called the War for Southern Independence. The reader is taken through a trial where Booth is prevented from testifying on his own behalf under the rules of law in that time. Never one to take second billing, the actor turned avenger manages to smuggle his version of events out of the Washington Arsenal prison and into the pages of the national press before the trap on the scaffold drops to put an end to this "what if" episode in American History.

Author : George Alfred Townsend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243720453
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth written by George Alfred Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William C. Edwards
Publisher : William Edwards
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1470 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lincoln Assassination Trial - The Court Transcripts written by William C. Edwards and published by William Edwards. This book was released on with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a transcript of NARA M599 Reels 8-15. It contains the arguments and summaries as well as the full testimony of each witness. It also contains the testimony of the perjured witnesses. This along with "The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence" and The Lincoln Assassination: The Reward Files" constitute a large majority of the primary evidence of the assassination.