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In the Senate of the United States. May 4, 1858. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Bayard made the following adverse report. (To accompany Bill S. 234.) The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred Senate Bill No. 234, for the remission of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, have had the same under consideration, and submit the following report ... by United States.Congress.Senate.Committee on the Judiciary.(CARDINAL)278873; Bayard, James Asheton,Jr.,1799-1880;
Subjects: Legislative materials.; District courts.; Fines (Penalties).; Judges.; Judicial power.; Legislative amendments.; Presidents.; Executive power.;
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Blood in the Garden : the flagrant history of the 1990s New York Knicks / by Herring, Chris(Sports journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-349).Prologue -- Speaking a New Language -- Thank God They Didn't Have Hand Grenades -- The Reinvention of Pat Riley -- Knock Michael Jordan to the Floor -- Chalk Outline -- The Butterfly Among the Buffaloes -- Daylight -- Thirty-Six Hours in Reno -- The Enigmatic Life of Anthony Mason -- Standing Out in the Crowd -- The Dream, the Chase, and the Nightmare -- Commitment Issues -- We're All a Little Guilty -- Whack-A-Mole -- Back to Basics -- Down in Flames -- Shattered -- Heart Transplant -- Long-Term Parking -- Beating the Odds -- The Clock Strikes Midnight -- Epilogue."Herring delves deep into the origin, evolution, and eventual demise of the team. Based on original reporting and over 105 interviews with the principal characters, Herring takes readers into the locker room, executive boardrooms, and on to the court. He [shows] how Pat Riley, once known for his slicked back hair and Armani suits, went from the glitz and glamour of the Showtime Lakers to orchestrating one of the most feared, intimidating defenses of all time. [He details] how, over the course of the decade, this seemingly disparate collection of castoffs came this close to achieving their dreams, only to see them face the end of the '90s as older, grizzled men who fell just short of the promised land"--
Subjects: Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.); National Basketball Association; New York Knickerbockers (Basketball team); Basketball players; Basketball;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 15
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Legal executions in North Carolina and South Carolina : a comprehensive registry, 1866-1962 / by Hearn, Daniel Allen,1958-(CARDINAL)335274;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Persons executed in North Carolina -- Persons executed in South Carolina."Presented in chronological order, this book provides essential details about the 1,152 men and women who were legally put to death in North and South Carolina during the century after the Civil War. Each entry contains information about the criminals themselves and the deeds which cost them their lives. Based almost entirely on original archival materials such as court records, contemporary newspapers, prisoner files, appellate reports, gubernatorial correspondence, etc., a newer picture of the historical record emerges that students of Southern justice will find both revealing and disconcerting"--Back cover.
Subjects: Records and briefs.; Chronologies.; Capital punishment; Capital punishment; Executions and executioners; Executions and executioners;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 12
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What happened to the Bennetts [sound recording] : a novel / by Scottoline, Lisa,author.(CARDINAL)341421; Ballerini, Edoardo,1970-narrator.(CARDINAL)353561; Dziekonski, Karen,producer.; Sherratt, Scott,director.; John Marshall Media, Inc.,editor.;
Executive producer, Karen Dziekonski ; Director, Scott Sherratt ; Edited by John Marshall Media.Performed by Edoardo Ballerini.Jason Bennett is a family man and an elite court reporter, so good at his work that he was once selected to cover legal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay. One of his skills is the ability to read lips, which his fourteen-year-old son calls his "superpower." But his life takes a horrific turn when he is driving his family home from his teenage daughter's lacrosse game, and he notices a pickup truck tailgating and cutting off their new Mercedes. Two men jump from the pickup, brandishing weapons, and demand that Jason turn over the Mercedes. He complies, getting his family and their dog out of the car. But when the dog leaps at the carjackers, one of their guns goes off. Jason hears a scream behind him, and his daughter falls to the street. Then there's another gunshot, as one carjacker shoots the other point-blank, killing him. The killer runs back to the pickup truck and drives away, leaving Jason to watch his daughter die. In his blinding grief, Jason receives a visit from the FBI. The agents inform him that the two carjackers work for a dangerous criminal organization distributing opiates in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware. The family must enter the witness protection program, or WITSEC. Hiding away, the family crumbles, and Jason begins to lose faith that the government is taking care of them at all. Jason sneaks out one night and discovers a startling fact that throws into doubt everything the government has been telling him. He takes matters into his own hands to save his family and bring his daughter's killer to justice, risking his life in the process. By the shocking end of the novel, Jason discovers a new definition of himself, shedding not only the identity the government has given him, but the one he was born with.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Carjacking; Witnesses; Vigilantes; Daughters; Fathers; Bereavement; Families; Drug traffic; Murder;
Available copies: 42 / Total copies: 46
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Marie Antoinette's head : the royal hairdresser, the queen, and the revolution / by Bashor, Will.(CARDINAL)404356;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-268) and index.Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, The Queen, and the Revolution charts the rise of Léonard Autié from humble origins as a country barber in the south of France to the inventor of the Pouf and premier hairdresser to Queen Marie-Antoinette. By unearthing a variety of sources from the 18th and 19th centuries, including memoirs (including Léonard's own), court documents, and archived periodicals the author, French History professor and expert Will Bashor, tells Autie's mostly unknown story. Bashor chronicles Leonard's story, the role he played in the life of his most famous client, and the chaotic and history-making world in which he rose to prominence. Besides his proximity to the queen, Léonard also had a most fascinating life filled with sex (he was the only man in a female dominated court), seduction, intrigue, espionage, theft, exile, treason, and possibly, execution. The French press reported that Léonard was convicted of treason and executed in Paris in 1793. However, it was also recorded that Léonard, after receiving a pension from the new King Louis XVIII, died in Paris in March 1820. Granted, Léonard was known as the magician of Marie-Antoinette's court, but how was it possible that he managed to die twice?
Subjects: Biographies.; Autié, Léonard, 1751?-1820.; Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793.; Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Supreme Court A to Z / by Jost, Kenneth.(CARDINAL)652254;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: A.Abortion -- Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts -- Affirmative Action -- Aliens -- Alito, Samuel A., Jr. -- Amending Process -- American Bar Association -- Amicus Curiae -- Antitrust -- Appeal -- Appointment and Removal Power -- Arguments -- Arms, Right to Bear -- Arrests -- Assembly, Freedom of -- Assigning Opinions -- Association, Freedom of -- Attainder, Bill of -- Attorney General -- B.Background of Justices -- Bail -- Baker v. Carr -- Baldwin, Henry -- Barbour, Philip P. -- Bar of the Supreme Court -- Bill of Rights -- Black, Hugo L. -- Blackmun, Harry A. -- Blair, John, Jr. -- Blatchford, Samuel -- Bradley, Joseph P. -- Brandeis, Louis D. -- Brennan, William J., Jr. -- Brewer, David J. -- Breyer, Stephen G. -- Brief -- Brown, Henry B. -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Burger, Warren E. -- Burton, Harold H. -- Bush v. Gore -- Busing -- Butler, Pierce -- Byrnes, James F. -- C.Calhoun, John C. -- Campaigns and Elections -- Campbell, John A. -- Capital Punishment -- Cardozo, Benjamin N. -- Case Law -- Case or Controversy Rule -- Catron, John -- Certiorari -- Chase, Salmon P. -- Chase, Samuel -- Chief Justice -- Child Labor -- Circuit Riding -- Citizenship -- Civil Liberties -- Civil Rights -- Civil War Amendments -- Clark, Tom C. -- Clarke, John H. -- Class Action -- Clay, Henry -- Clerk of the Court -- Clerks -- Clifford, Nathan -- Comity -- Commerce Power -- Common Law -- Communism -- Concurring Opinions -- Conferences -- Confessions -- Confirmation Process -- Congress and the Court -- Congressional Immunity -- Constitutional Law -- Contempt of Court -- Contract Clause -- Cost of Supreme Court -- Counsel, Right to Legal -- Counselor to the Chief Justice -- Courts, Lower -- Courts, Powers of -- Criminal Law and Procedure -- Cruel and Unusual Punishment -- Curator's Office -- Currency Powers -- Curtis, Benjamin R. -- Cushing, William -- D.Daniel, Peter V. -- Davis, David -- Davis, John W. -- Day, William R. -- Decision Days -- De Facto, De Jure -- Defendant -- Disability Rights -- Discrimination -- Dissenting Opinions -- Diversity Jurisdiction -- Docket -- Double Jeopardy -- Douglas, William O. -- Due Process -- Duvall, Gabriel -- E.Education and the Court -- Elections and the Court -- Electronic Surveillance -- Ellsworth, Oliver -- Equal Protection -- Exclusionary Rule -- Executive Privilege and Immunity -- Ex Parte -- Ex Post Facto -- Extrajudicial Activities -- F.Federalism -- Federal Judicial Center -- Felony -- Field, Stephen J. -- Flag Salute Cases -- Foreign Affairs -- Fortas, Abe -- Frankfurter, Felix -- Fuller, Melville W. -- G.Garland, Augustus H. -- Gay Rights -- Gibbons v. Ogden -- Gideon v. Wainwright -- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader -- Goldberg, Arthur J. -- Grand Jury -- Gray, Horace -- Grier, Robert C. -- H.Habeas Corpus -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Harlan, John Marshall (1833-1911) -- Harlan, John Marshall (1899-1971) -- Historical Society, Supreme Court -- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. -- Housing the Court -- Hughes, Charles Evans -- Hunt, Ward -- I.Impeachment -- Impeachment of Justices -- Income Tax -- Incorporation Doctrine -- Indictment -- In Forma Pauperis -- Injunction -- Intellectual Property -- International Law -- Internet -- Internment Cases -- Iredell, James -- J.Jackson, Andrew -- Jackson, Howell E. -- Jackson, Robert H. -- Jay, John -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Job Discrimination -- Johnson, Thomas -- Johnson, William -- Judgment of the Court -- Judicial Activism -- Judicial Conference of the United States -- Judicial Restraint -- Judicial Review -- Juries -- Jurisdiction -- Justiciability -- K.Kagan, Elena -- Kennedy, Anthony M. -- L.Lamar, Joseph R. -- Lamar, Lucius Q. C. -- Legal Office of the Court -- Legal System in America -- Legal Tender Cases -- Legislative Veto -- Libel -- Library of the Court -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Livingston, H. Brockholst -- Loyalty Oaths -- Lurton, Horace H. -- M.Majority Opinion -- Mandamus -- Mandatory Jurisdiction -- Marbury v. Madis
Subjects: Biographies.; Encyclopedias.; United States. Supreme Court; United States. Supreme Court;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Forsaken / by Howell, Ross,Jr.,author.(CARDINAL)739430;
"In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. "Virgie" died in the electric chair one day after her seventeenth birthday, the only female juvenile executed in Virginia history. Charlie tells the story of the trial and its aftermath. Woven into his narrative are actual court records, letters, newspaper stories, and personal accounts, reflecting the arc of history in characters large and small, in events local and global. Charlie falls in love with Harriet, a girl orphaned by the murder; meets Virgie's blind attorney George Fields, a former slave; and encounters physician Walter Plecker, a state official who pursues racial purity laws later emulated in Nazi Germany"--Jacket.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Christian, Virginia, 1894 or 1895-1912; Fields, George Washington, 1854-1932; Trials (Murder); Reporters and reporting; African Americans;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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Message of the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, calling for information on the subject of contracts made in Europe for inland passage tickets for intending emigrants to the United States. January 28, 1858. -- Read and ordered to lie on the table. Motion to print referred to the Committee on Printing. February 15, 1858. -- Report in favor of printing submitted, considered, and agreed to. by United States.Congress.Senate.(CARDINAL)139237; Buchanan, James,1791-1868.(CARDINAL)137765; United States.Department of State.(CARDINAL)155700; United States.President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)(CARDINAL)137756;
Subjects: Legislative materials.; New York State Commissioners of Emigration.; Fraud.; Immigrants.; Emigration and immigration.; Immigration courts.; Migration, Internal;
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Blood in the Garden [sound recording] : the flagrant history of the 1990s New York Knicks / by Herring, Chris(Sports journalist),author.; Hutchison, Brian,narrator.;
Read by Brian Hutchison.For nearly an entire generation, the New York Knicks have been a laughingstock franchise. Since 2001, they've spent more money, lost more games, and won fewer playoff series than any other NBA team. But during the preceding era, the Big Apple had a club it was madly in love with one that earned respect not only by winning but through brute force. The Knicks were always looking for fights, often at the encouragement of Pat Riley. They fought opposing players. They fought each other. Hell, they even occasionally fought their coaches. The NBA didn't take kindly to their fighting spirit. Within two years, league officials moved to alter several rules to stop New York from turning its basketball games into bloody mudwrestling matches. Nevertheless, as the 1990s progressed, the Knicks endeared themselves to millions of fans; not for how much they won, but for their colorful cast of characters and their hardworking mentality. Now, through his original reporting and interviews with more than two hundred people, author Chris Herring delves into the origin, evolution, and eventual demise of the iconic club. He takes us inside the locker room, executive boardrooms, and onto the court for the key moments that lifted the club to new heights, and the ones that threatened to send everything crashing down spectacularly.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; New York Knickerbockers (Basketball team); Basketball players; Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y. : 1968- ); National Basketball Association; Basketball;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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4 film favorites. [videorecording]. by Washington, Denzel,1954-(CARDINAL)360194; Hawke, Ethan,1970-(CARDINAL)349523; Duvall, Robert.(CARDINAL)808220; Goodman, John,1952-(CARDINAL)344847; Sutherland, Donald,1935-(CARDINAL)749121; Roberts, Julia,1967-(CARDINAL)365167; Shepard, Sam.; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;
Fallen: director, Gregory Hoblit ; producers, Charles Roven, Dawn Steel ; writer, Nicholas Kazan.John Q: director, Nick Cassavetes ; producers, Mark Burg, Oren Koules ; writer, James Kearns.Pelican brief: director, Alan J. Pakula ; producers, Alan J. Pakula, Pieter Jan Brugge ; screenplay by Alan J. Pakula.Training day: director, Antoine Fuqua ; producers, Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer ; writer, David Ayer.Fallen: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland.John Q: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall.Pelican brief: Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Sam Shepard.Training day: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke.Training day: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears. John Q: A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation. Fallen: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style. Pelican brief: A reporter and a law student work together to find proof of the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of two Supreme Court judges.Training day, Fallen rated R ; John Q, Pelican brief rated PG-13.DVD; widescreen; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Legal drama (Films); Action and adventure films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Police corruption; Hostages; Murderers; Women law students; Motion picture film collections.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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