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Tales from a Trial Court

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  • Book One: Human Heavy
    • Prologue: Fecal Finger-Painting
    • 1.1 Superior Court: Open to the World
    • 1.2 Fecal Fingerpainting / Reprise
    • 1.3 Human Heavy
    • 4 / Beyond the Court’s Control
    • 1.5 Esprit de Court
    • 1.6 Harsh Situations, Harsh Characters
    • 1.7 Q-Tip vs. The World
    • 1.8 Victim Impact
    • 1.9 Two Sides to Every Story
    • 1.10 The Other Cheek
    • 1.11 Medicating a Murderer
    • 1.12 Summer in the City
    • 1.13 Mooning at the Moon Bar and Grill
    • 1.14 A Problem with Women
  • Book Two: The Gray Area
    • 2.1 Terence Myers: A Brother’s Loss
    • 2.2 Last Connection to Dignity
    • 2.3 A Downward Spiral
    • 2.4 The Next Shoe Drops
    • 2.5 Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity
    • 2.6 M’Naghten’s Case
    • 2.7 The Best and Worst of Times
    • 2.8 “A Rumor in My Own Mind”
    • 2.9 The Product Test
    • 2.10 The Retreat
    • 2.11 Compounding a Mistake
    • 2.12 Worn Down
    • 2.13 More Delays
    • 2.14 Edwards v. Indiana
    • 2.15 Closure
    • 2.16 In Conclusion: Going It Alone
  • Book Three: Death is Different
    • 3.1 Christmas Eve
    • 3.2 Murder and Mitigation
    • 3.3 The Codefendants
    • 3.4 A Line in the Sand
    • 3.5 A Volunteer for Death
    • 3.6 The World, a Stage
    • 3.7 Striking Death
    • 3.8 Punctuated Equilibrium
    • 3.9 The Devil in the Discretion
    • 3.10 Reason to Believe
    • 3.11 A Dispassionate Gatekeeper
    • 3.12 Equal Protection under the Law
    • 3.13 Death-Qualified
    • 3.14 Vicarious Reliability
    • 3.15 The Price of Punishment
    • 3.16 Not Fair
    • 3.17 Sunshine
    • 3.18 Attack and Parry
    • 3.19 The Law
    • 3.20 . . . or in Mercy
    • 3.21 Day One
    • 3.22 An Ideal and a Goal
    • 3.23 All of Us
  • The Honorable Jeffrey M. Ramsdell
  • The author

Book One: Human Heavy

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Book One, Human Heavy, illustrates several short cases, each dealing with a different individual’s experience in a criminal court or with the functioning of a trial court generally.

Book One begins with the next section, Prologue: Fecal Finger-Painting

Chambers Door

Photograph of Chambers Door by Kenya Hart

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