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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Twin sisters Diane and Lisa Pierman--one a lawyer, the other a caterer--see red when a thug who raped them goes free. Subsequently, the man is shot in a restaurant and witnesses say it was either Diane or Lisa, they look so alike. Prosecutor Sal Milano, Diane's beau, charges both with murder, but how to prove it? Neither woman is talking and the city of Santa Monica is hailing them as heroines.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In March 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the 20th century. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
John Gregg's lack-lustre career and marriage leave him feeling inadequate when he is appointed foreman of the jury on a date-rape case. When he is approached about ensuring a "not guilty" verdict, he learns the consequences of honoring the true concept of justice
Author
Language
English
Description
The saga of the Duke lacrosse team members' alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them. Covering all five aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and media), journalist Taylor and historian Johnson argue that law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats were made of these young men, recklessly...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, NC, named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded endlessly for his release even as a subsequent trial and appeals reinforced his sentence. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the "Big Red" high school football team. They took turns documenting the crime and sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and...
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A white girl is raped in Sacramento's Chinatown, but she refuses to talk or submit to a physical examination. The case is given to Chinese-American prosecutor Joshua Jin, while the defense is headed by a woman who is Jin's former lover.
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That same night, a reign of terror was unleashed on Birmingham's black community: black businesses were set ablaze, posses of armed white men roamed the streets,...
Publisher
Distributed by Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling this capital case from 1984-2004, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg painstakingly frame the judicial and emotional reponses to a chilling crime, and the implications surrounding Darryl Hunt's wrongful conviction.
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