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This film follows the trial of 26-year-old Guy Heinze Jr, with remarkable access to the jury members charged with reaching a verdict on allegations that Heinze beat his father and seven members of his family to death. As the trial progresses, there is legal maneuvering while evidence about the brutal killings unfolds.

Art dealer Jonathan Argyll has found a buyer for an 18th century painting of the death of Socrates. However when he arrives in Rome to deliver the painting, the purchaser, Mr. Muller seems disinterested in it and asks Jonathan to arrange its resale. But if he is no longer interested in the painting-- someone else is-enough to commit murder to possess it.

Marjorie Dawe is a librarian, and takes her job -- and indeed the truth of words -- very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours -- Roundworld -- is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of the Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a pet gerbil). After all, they brought it into existence by bungling an experiment in Quantum ThaumoDynamics. But legal action is being brought...

Dispensing Justice is designed to serve as a source book of Islamic legal practice and qadi court records from the rise of Islam to modern times, drawing upon court records and qadi judgments, in addition to literary sources. In the first chapter, we survey the state of the field, sketching the history, structure, and modern transformation of the qadiship. The twenty chapters that follow are grouped thematically in four sections: (1) the nature and...

To the Romans, the Roman games were not so much entertainment as part of the judicial system. Five classicists discuss the role of the ancient arena spectacles that featured combat with animals, public executions, and gladiatorial matches.