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Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman life, law, and history.

Not every Wild West disagreement was settled with guns on a dusty street. Even on the frontier, accused criminals were entitled to a fair trial. Author Johnny Boggs recreates and analyzes some of the wildest murder trials of these times.

In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on “Bloody Sunday,” troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and a triumphant address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But within hours klan terror struck, claiming the life of one of the marchers, Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five. Turner offers an insider’s view of the three trials that took place over the following nine months—which finally resulted in the conviction of the killers. Despite eyewitness testimony by an FBI informant who was riding in the car with the killers, two all-white state juries refused to convict. It took a team of Civil Rights Division lawyers, led by the legendary John Doar, to produce the landmark jury verdict that klansmen were no longer above the law. This is must reading today, as the voting rights won in Selma come under renewed attack.Explore several court documents, including court transcripts, exhibits, and memoranda on Fulcrum.org.

In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on “Bloody Sunday,” troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and a triumphant address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But within hours klan terror struck, claiming the life of one of the marchers, Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five. Turner offers an insider’s view of the three trials that took place over the following nine months—which finally resulted in the conviction of the killers. Despite eyewitness testimony by an FBI informant who was riding in the car with the killers, two all-white state juries refused to convict. It took a team of Civil Rights Division lawyers, led by the legendary John Doar, to produce the landmark jury verdict that klansmen were no longer above the law. This is must reading today, as the voting rights won in Selma come under renewed attack.Explore several court documents, including court transcripts, exhibits, and memoranda on Fulcrum.org.

Courtroom trials are the most entertaining of American spectacles. Joining fastidious research with masterful story-telling, author Dan Brabender, again, presents tales of captivating murders and the fascinating personalities involved. Erie's Sensational Murder Trials, Volume 2 is a collection of accounts of nine distinctive homicides that shocked the county with their gruesome violence and spell-binding trials. It is left to the reader to decide whether these cases would stand the scrutiny of today's statutes, case law, rules of court and social mores. The author, Dan Brabender, is a graduate of the University of Dayton and the University of Dayton School of Law. After a general practice of law spanning over 31 years, he was elected Erie (PA) County Court of Common Pleas judge in 2009, and remains in that position to the present. Judge Brabender has written and published several local best-sellers, including RAMBLERS The History of Cathedral Prep Football (2000); That Championship Season: The Story of the 2000 Cathedral Prep Ramblers (2001); The Cathedral Prep Basketball Chronicles (2018); Sports Heroes of the Erie School District: 125 Profiles (2019); and Erie's Sensational Murder Trials (2022).