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Chapin, Bradley. Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press. 1983.
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Dershowitz, Alan M. America on Trial: Inside the Legal Battles that Transformed our Nation. New York: Warner Books, 2004. [KF220 .D368 2004].
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Morris, Richard B. Fair Trial; Fourteen Who Stood Accused, from Anne Hutchinson to Alger Hiss. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. [KF220 .M6 1967].
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Pole, J.R. Contract & Consent: Representation and the Jury in Anglo-American Legal History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. Library has print & e-book
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Schuetz, Janice. The Logic of Women on Trial: Case Studies of Popular American Trials. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. “Rebecca Nurse,” “Mary Surratt,” Lizzie Borden” [KF220 .S383 1994].
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