Murder Trials

1976 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Cicero ◽  
Michael Grant
Keyword(s):  
Murder Trials

The Revival and the Third Movie

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Mordden
Keyword(s):  
Due Process ◽  
The Third ◽  
High Profit ◽  
The Press ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Murder Trials ◽  
Public Reaction

This chapter discusses the revival of Chicago as well as its movie adaptation. At the same time, the chapter refers to the infamous O. J. Simpson trial in describing Watkins’ own feeling that the press was shaping public reaction to murder trials to exculpate the guilty. Considering the show-biz aspect of the whole Simpson chronicle, the lesson everyone took from this case was that high-profit justice is show business by other means: the very message of Chicago. With the nation more or less transfixed by this staged miscarriage of due process, the musical’s lesson was at last learned. Finally, the chapter examines further themes and lessons from the film, as well as the national art of the musical as a whole.

Evidence in ‘No-Body’ Murder Trials

2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 459-462
Author(s):  
James Morton
Keyword(s):  
Murder Trials

Foul-Weather Friends

2021 ◽  
pp. 441-462
Author(s):  
Curtis G. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Ritual Murder ◽  
Murder Trials ◽  
The Town

This chapter highlights the civil–military commission of Lublin voivodeship that adjudicated a contract dispute between the town magistracy and the Jewish community of Lublin over the quartering of soldiers for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's rapidly growing army. It analyzes the quarrels between Jews and their Christian neighbours that punctuated small-town life in pre-modern eastern Europe. It also points out how disputes serve as a reminder that the confrontations between Jews and Christians did not arise from ethno-religious hostility. The chapter mentions historians of Poland–Lithuania that often viewed the dynamics of Jewish–Christian interaction through dramatic details, such as the escalation of ritual murder trials in the eighteenth century. It describes contacts between urban Christians and Jews that revolved around concrete and prosaic concerns that were connected with the ambiguous powers and duties of both groups.

Courting Ignorance: Why We Know So Little About Our Most Important Courts

Daedalus ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Yeazell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trial Courts ◽  
Murder Trials ◽  
Debt Collection ◽  
Traffic Tickets

Most of the United States' judicial work takes place in the country's state trial courts. These tribunals preside over everything from traffic tickets to murder trials, from routine debt collection to massive environmental torts. Given their expansive role, the manner in which these courts function is of immense significance. But ultimately, we know very little about these institutions. Our ignorance flows both from trivial bureaucratic turf battles and from deeply rooted principles of local government, a phenomenon I have called “data federalism.” In the last few decades, we have begun to form a partial image of the activities of these organs of government; but we know almost nothing about their past, and the little we do know suggests the dangers of extrapolation. This essay explores the extent of our ignorance of state trial courts and the difficulties of overcoming it.

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