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True Crime As A Literature Of Advocacy, Leslie Rowen
True Crime As A Literature Of Advocacy, Leslie Rowen
Undergraduate Theses
True crime is often dismissed as a genre of cheap paperbacks with little literary merit and highly sensational, pornographic content. By contrast, my paper proposes an alternative literary history of true crime which merits further investigation because of its focus on advocating for justice where the justice system failed. I begin with Catharine Williams’ 1833 piece Fall River: An Authentic Narrative, an early example from true crime literature. The text disputes the acquittal of a Methodist preacher for the murder of a female mill worker, arguing that the trial was unfairly slanted in the defendant’s favor. More than a century …
The United States And The International Criminal Court Post-Bush: A Beautiful Courtship But An Unlikely Marriage, Megan A. Fairlie
The United States And The International Criminal Court Post-Bush: A Beautiful Courtship But An Unlikely Marriage, Megan A. Fairlie
Faculty Publications
The article focuses on the relationship status between the U.S. and the International Criminal Court (ICC) from being dormant due to being renewed. The renewal was evident from the U.S. representation at the 2009 ICC's Assembly of States Parties annual meeting and the 2010 ICC Review Conference. Using the Rome Statute, the ICC has been granted subject matter jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Changing The Constitutional Jurisdiction Of The Indiana Supreme Court: Letting A Court Of Last Resort Act Like One, Randall T. Shepard
Changing The Constitutional Jurisdiction Of The Indiana Supreme Court: Letting A Court Of Last Resort Act Like One, Randall T. Shepard
Indiana Law Journal
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57/07/20 Killer Or Liar? / Gerber Wants Lie Tests For Sam, Brothers, Cleveland News
57/07/20 Killer Or Liar? / Gerber Wants Lie Tests For Sam, Brothers, Cleveland News
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Reports that Coroner Gerber asked the County Commissioners for funds to go to Deland, Florida and question Donald Welder, the fugitive who confessed to Marilyn Sheppard's murder. Gerber also asked for permission to give lie detector tests to Sam's brothers and sisters-in-law. He also wants representatives from the County to be present if Sam is given a lie test in the Ohio Penitentiary.
57/07/20 No Special Favors, Cleveland Press
57/07/20 No Special Favors, Cleveland Press
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Cleveland Press editorial states that "If Sheppard gets a lie detector test every other prisoner in the Ohio Penitentiary who asks for it should get one too. The test, of course, should be by regular law enforcement officials familiar with the work. Any test by an outsider is decidedly out of place."
57/07/19 Pal Named In Confession Is Phantom, Police Find, Cleveland Plain Dealer
57/07/19 Pal Named In Confession Is Phantom, Police Find, Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Reports that Donald Wedler, the fugitive who confessed to Marilyn Sheppard's murder, said he stayed with Marine veteran Charlie Fremont while he was in Cleveland in July 1954. Police couldn't find Fremont and no records of the man were found by the Veterans Administration. The article also updates the status of the investigation by Gardner's Court of Last Resort.