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Introduction 11

Chapter 1 Architects of Genocide 13
The Victorious Allies Put Hitler's Henchmen in the Defendant's Box at Nüremberg

Chapter 2 Darrow in the Docket 59
In a Time Of Labor Unrest, America's Greatest Litigator and Friend of the Workingman Fights for His Professional Life

Chapter 3 Disorder in the Court 103
The Trial of the Chicago Seven Pits the Establishment Against the Woodstock Generation

Chapter 4 Death by Plutonium 119
Fallout from Karen Silkwood's Death Brings the Nuclear Industry to Its Knees

Chapter 5 Leopold and Loeb 159
"Spare Them, for They Know All Too well What They Do"

Chapter 6 A Man's World No More 211
Clara Shortridge Foltz Sends Shockwaves Throuqh the Turn-of-the-Century Legal Establishment When She Becomes the First Woman to Do Battle in California's Courts

Chapter 7 Peace, Love, and Murder 223
Manson Family Mastermind Sentenced to Die for Followers' Murderous Rampage

Chapter 8 Justice Delayed but Not Denied 289
Three Trials and Thirty Years Later, Medgar Evers's Assassin Pays the Piper

Chapter 9 Coke, Lies, and Videotape 305
The Delorian Defense Team Convinces Jurors They Can't Trust Their Eyes -- Or the Feds

Chapter 10 Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and My Lai 345
A Generation After Nüremburg, Home-Grown War Criminals Claim They WEre Just Following Orders When They Murdered and Entire Village