... of Arizona and New Mexico. At the highly publicized trial that followed, it came to light that the evidence Reavis had presented to the court to prove the existence of the Peralta Land Grant and his wife’s title to it was forged. This essay uses the trial transcript to recover the woman at the center...

... in Valenciennes, with Marguerite as a witness. Her use of fire as a metaphor to describe union with God foreshadows her death. Furthermore, The Mirror ’s emphasis on the insufficiency of language to describe the divine echoes Marguerite’s silence during her inquisitorial trial. However, these complaints against...

... on the Rights o f the Child (2000), the Freetown tribunals in Sierra Leone (2004 05), the Charles Taylor trial (2007-10, administered by the Special Court for Sierre Leone), and m ost recently the International Criminal Court trial of Thomas Lubanga (2009-present). Am idst all of this publicity in inter­...

... to contribute to constructing a public dis­ course that opened the arenas of law and governance to ordinary citizens, and thus creat­ ed in effect a new juris-diction. Juris-dictions for Speaking Justice In his novel HughTrevor, published in tw o parts because his ow n trial on charges o f treason interrupted...

... to challenge Claudio and fight for H ero s honor. T hat in seeking a cham pion Beatrice should call on Benedick may be read as a guarantee of their betrothal, for the trial by combat looks back to the blood-feud and its later m ore lim ited form, the Anglo-Saxon vendetta, in which vengeance for a private w...

... of the day satir­ ically represented as birds.2 Baudelaire's swan is unquestionably an allegorical figure w ith explicitly political overtones and reference points, among them the régime o f the Second Empire, Hugo's exile, and Baudelaire's experience of the trial and censorship of Fleurs du mal, which...

..., there is a strong probability that every word in the copy for Q1 [the First Quarto] was Shakespeare s ; yet she still regards 3.5 as an interlude he could entrust to the patter of Will Kemp (who almost certainly played Lancelot) before the ardours of the trial scene. 2Thus even M ahood seems to place her emphasis...

... bare-chested, ready to face his foe in a final confrontation. The Passion's narrative arc is, o f course, organized around the same trial-crucifixionresurrection structure.The character development and narrative intelligibility of the film was also the target of much critical derision. As the hero...

... be dead (482; bk. 5, ch. 43). By calling into question the conviction for m urder, the prematurity exposes the dynamics of patriarchal power on trial in this novel. A review of the evidence shows that George Eliot took pains to draw attention to the prem aturity o f H etty s infant. T he piv­ otal date...

... the roles of judge and jury in a ju ry trial: it is said that the jury decides the facts w hile the judge decides the law. In practice, the ju ry infers facts from evidence presented and from its ow n knowledge pre-judgments or prejudices about the w orld; the judge m ust have a sense of the "facts" before...

..., or “tale.” From 1945 to about 1950 my mother, my uncle, and their parents lived in Yokohama, Japan. My grandfather was a lawyer working for the US government. He’d been sent to participate in the Tokyo war crimes trials (some of which took place in Yokohama). His job was more clerical than theatrical...

... and sex would rem ain in­ June 2004 79 extricably u n ited in the eighties and nineties as the theatre concerned itself with homosexuality and the AIDS crisis (224). H o u ch in s book occasionally delights in the folly b ehind censorship trials. W hen he discusses Mae West and h er plays Sex (1924...

... at Columbia University. His books in law and literature include Law and Letters in American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1987); The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820 (Harvard University Press, 1997); Reading the Early Republic (Harvard University Press, 2006); and most recently, The Trial in American...

.... MORE LIGHT ON DREISER S CHESTER GILLETTE/ CLYDE GRIFFITHS FAMILY For nearly seventy-five years, since the publication of An American Tragedy in 1925, critics have n o ted th a t T h eo d o re Dreiser used for the structure of his narrative an historical inci­ dent, the m uch publicized trial o f...

... that the concept is very old. Cases where imps have been said to steal milk from oth ers cattle are m entioned in witchcraft court proceedings.23 In one trial (although n o t involving milktheft) an imp was term ed a puckrel,24 In Scandinavian popular imagination a milk-stealing crea­ ture could be assembled out...

... problem w ith police reports was that they recounted the events of mag­ isterial hearings that preceded court trials, which meant they could potentially prejudice juries. In the fall of 1824, the legal dispute Duncan v. Thwaites dramatized this very problem. Essentially, it was a case of alleged libel...

... responded to their political context of postwar reparations and war-crimes trials, as Stephanie Bird (2018) has argued, so the trope of dementia in Lavigne’s novel is an extra twist arising from its twenty-first-century context. These earlier works include Edgar Hilsenrath’s novel The Nazi...

... before and after the trial scene warn of the devastating effects of marriage laws that do not recognize wives as persons. Wrongs of Woman begins in medias res with a close third-person narration of Maria’s thoughts and sensations as she wakes from a drugged state to find herself confined in a madhouse...

.... TheTrial o f Anne Hutchinson, one of the early games in the series, was m y introduction to the program . (In the trial, as my opening paragraph suggests, I was one of the defenders of Mrs. Hutchinson.) "React­ ing" contests involve the reconstruction and playing out, in the classroom, of important m om...

... of the Ottoman Empire to cultivate a fierce fighting spirit? 44 In general, the effects of the opium poppy appear to have been widely known in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. In a murder trial from 1695, a London man was found guilty of a “most cruel” crime that involved a man killing...