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"I wonder what you'd think of me if you found out that I've done something really serious." So begin the confessions of Thomas Quick--Scandinavia's most notorious serial killer. In 1992, behind the barbed wire fence of a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, Thomas Quick confessed to the murder of an 11-year-old boy who had been missing for 12 years. Over the next nine years, Quick confessed to more than 30 unsolved murders, revealing he...
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"Haig Bosmajian traces the history of the freedom not to speak from the Middle Ages and Inquisition to the Salem witchcraft trials and on to the twentieth century and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His history addresses the eighteenth-century Revolutionary War and demands for expressions of loyalty, the Civil War and Reconstruction loyalty oaths, and the expulsion of Jehovah's Witnesses from schools for refusing to salute the flag."--Jacket...
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"One of the most significant Supreme Court cases in U.S. history has its roots in Arizona and is closely tied to the state's leading legal figures. Miranda has become a household word; now Gary Stuart tells the inside story of this famous case, and with it the legal history of the accused's right to counsel and silence. Ernesto Miranda was an uneducated Hispanic man arrested in 1963 in connection with a series of sexual assaults, to which he confessed...
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The right to remain silent, guaranteed by the famed Fifth Amendment case, Miranda v. Arizona, is perhaps one of the most easily recognized and oft-quoted constitutional rights in American culture. Yet despite its ubiquity, there is widespread misunderstanding about the right and the protections promised under the Fifth Amendment. In this book, the author a legal scholar reveals precisely why our Fifth Amendment rights matter and how they are being...
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