Author: Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher: Vanguard Pre
Keywords: murder, bush, george, prosecution
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-05-26
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 159315481X
ISBN-13: 9781593154813

Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thought-provoking book of his storied career. In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers fighting the war in Iraq. Bugliosi sets forth the legal architecture and incontrovertible evidence that President Bush took this nation to war in Iraq under false pretenses—a war that ha

Author: American Prosecutors Research Institute
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: abuse, child, prosecution, investigation
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2003-12-20
List price: $107.00
ISBN-10: 0761930906
ISBN-13: 9780761930907

To assist investigators and prosecutors, APRI’s National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse-the nation’s premiere trainer of child abuse prosecutors and investigators-presents the Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, Third Edition. Readers of this manual will receive practical, common sense assistance in handling child abuse cases from the initial report to the closing argument at trial. Appendices on the enclosed CD-ROM include hundreds of sample motions and other legal documents that can be adapted to the jurisdiction of individual readers. Now in its Third Edition, the manua

Authors:Ivan Bunn, Gilbert Geis,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: witchcraft, prosecution, century, seventeenth, witches, trial
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-11-05
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0415171091
ISBN-13: 9780415171090

In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period.In a critique of the official process, the book details how the erroneous conclusions of the trial were achieved. The authors consider the key participants in the case, including the judge and medical witness, their institutional importance, their p

Author: Stephen Macedo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: pennsylvania, law, studies, human, rights, international, crimes, national, jurisdiction, courts, prosecution, serious, universal
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2006-02-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0812219503
ISBN-13: 9780812219500

When former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London at the request of a Spanish judge, the world’s attention was focused for the first time on the idea of universal jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction stands for the principle that atrocities such as genocide, torture, and war crimes are so heinous and so universally abhorred that any state is entitled to prosecute these crimes in its national courts regardless where they were committed or the nationality of the perpetrators or the victims. In 2001, two Rwandan nuns were convicted in a Belgian court for atrocities commit

Author: Michael Salter
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Keywords: role, regarding, office, strategic, services, controversies, nuremberg, crimes, war, intelligence, selective, prosecution, nazi
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2007-07-06
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 190438580X
ISBN-13: 9781904385806

Reviewing recently declassified CIA documents, this book provides a balanced but critical discussion of the contribution of American intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Giving new details of how senior Nazi war criminals, such as SS General Karl Wolff, were provided with effective immunity deals, partly as a reward for their wartime cooperation with US intelligence officials, including Allen Dulles, former CIA Director, the author also discusses the role of such officials in mobilizing the unique resources of a modern intelligence agency to provide important trial testi