Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-250) and index
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Crime as rhetoric : the trial of the Catonsville Nine / J. Justin Gustainis -- Mediating the laws : popular trials and the mass media / Barry Brummett
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Performing the laws : popular trials and social knowledge / Robert Hariman -- Constitutional argument in a national theater : the impeachment trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell / John Louis Lucaites -- Two stories of the Scopes trial : legal and journalistic articulations of the legitimacy of science and religion / Lawrance M. Bernabo and Celeste Michelle Condit -- Constraints on persuasion in the Chicago Seven trial / Juliet Dee -- Power, knowledge, and insanity : the trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. / William F. Lewis -- The Claus von Bulow retrial : lights, camera, genre? / Susan J. Drucker and Janice Platt Hunold -- The saga of Roger Hedgecock : a case study in trial by local media / Larry A. Williamson