Chapter 1—Talking to the Police 与警察谈话The overbearing（傲慢的, 专横的） police interrogation designed to wrench a confession from a quivering（颤抖的） suspec...
Comparison of Federal and State Systems 联邦和州刑事司法系统比较Most criminal prosecutions take place in state courts. The chart below highlights some of the key ...
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The trial and execution of Socrates in Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians. Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the wor...
Providing an account of the trial of Jesus presents challenges unlike that for any of the other trials on the Famous Trials Website. First, there is t...
In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei, two worlds come into cosmic conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism collides with the world of Sch...
O Christian Martyr Who for Truth could die When all about thee Owned the hideous lie! The world, redeemed from superstition's sway, Is breathing f...
No country values free expression more highly than does the United States, and no case in American history stands as a greater landmark on the road to...
Although it has been over two centuries since the moonlit March night in 1770 when British soldiers killed five Bostonians on King Street, people stil...
The true story of the 1789 mutiny on the Bounty is far more complicated than suggested by film versions of the event, which have emphasized the gratui...