From Victim to Suspect
Stephen Sedley: The Era of the Trial, 21 July 2005
The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson
by Sadakat Kadri.
HarperCollins, 474 pp., £25, April 2005,0 00 711121 5 Show More
by Sadakat Kadri.
HarperCollins, 474 pp., £25, April 2005,
“... plain nonsense, and nothing else.’ The prosecutor had made the mistake of calling Henry Sweet a coward. Who are the cowards in this case? . . . Eleven people with black skins? Eleven people, gentlemen, whose ancestors did not come to America because they wanted to, but were brought here in slave ships, to toil for nothing, for the whites . . . He has ... ”