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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953985153 Title: Prairie defender : the murder trials of Abraham Lincoln Author: George R Dekle; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2017] ISBN/ISSN: 9780809335978 0809335972 OCLC:953985153

  
  

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Prairie defender : the murder trials of Abraham Lincoln

Author:	George R Dekle; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Publisher:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"The conventional wisdom says that most of Lincoln's practice involved collecting debt and representing railroads; that he only practiced law as a platform for his political career; that criminal law was only a minuscule part of his practice; and that he was particularly bad at defending homicide cases. A survey of Lincoln's murder cases demonstrates that he was first and foremost a trial lawyer, that the trial of criminal cases was an important part of his practice, and that he was not only a very good criminal trial lawyer, he was very capable of defending murder cases. Dekle devotes a chapter to each of Lincoln's well-documented criminal cases, paying particular attention to homicide cases. He consolidates cases for which we have little reference material into a single chapter and ends with an overall assessment of Lincoln as a criminal trial lawyer"--  Read more...
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Subjects	Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865. Criminal defense lawyers -- Illinois -- Biography. Trials (Murder) -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century. View all subjects
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