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The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln
George R. Dekle Sr.(Author)
Southern Illinois University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. May 2017
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-8093-3597-8 (ISBN)
Description
The conventional wisdom says that most of Lincoln's practice involved collecting debt and representing railroads; that he only practiced law as a platform for his political career; that criminal law was only a minuscule part of his practice; and that he was particularly bad at defending homicide cases. A survey of Lincoln's murder cases demonstrates that he was first and foremost a trial lawyer, that the trial of criminal cases was an important part of his practice, and that he was not only a very good criminal trial lawyer, he was very capable of defending murder cases. Dekle devotes a chapter to each of Lincoln's well-documented criminal cases, paying particular attention to homicide cases. He consolidates cases for which we have little reference material into a single chapter and ends with an overall assessment of Lincoln as a criminal trial lawyer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-3597-8 (9780809335978)
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05/2017
1st Edition
Southern Illinois University Press
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