The Murder Trial Of Judge Peel

Author : Jim Bishop
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787204065

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The Murder Trial of Judge Peel by Jim Bishop Pdf

Originally published in 1962, this is the true story account of one of Florida’s most chilling crimes. Joseph Peel, a crooked municipal judge of Palm Beach, Florida, is accused of killing fellow judge, Curtis Chillingworth, of the superior court, who mysteriously disappeared along with his wife, Marjorie Chillingworth, from their home in 1955. Peel was publicly reprimanded by Chillingworth in 1953, when Peel represented both sides in a divorce. In June 1955, Peel was scheduled to appear in court to answer charges of unethical conduct in yet another divorce case, and so faced disbarment. Since Peel was also using his position as an elected municipal judge to protect bolita operators and moonshiners by giving them advance warnings of raids in return for financial consideration, Peel faced the loss of his superior position—and thus his lucrative illegal racket... A gripping read. “Bishop’s reconstruction is well-ordered and well-observed, a stunning form of journalistic jazz, cool, crisp and all on one note, like a headline. [...] A simple, speedy, thoroughly satisfying thriller...”—Kirkus Review

Author : Jim 1907-1987 Bishop
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101497741X

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The Murder Trial of Judge Peel by Jim 1907-1987 Bishop Pdf

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Author : John R. Vile
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781576079904

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Great American Judges [2 volumes] by John R. Vile Pdf

Inspiring and instructive biographies of the 100 most influential judges from state and federal courts in one easy-to-access volume. Great American Judges profiles 100 outstanding judges and justices in a full sweep of U.S. history. Chosen by lawyers, historians, and political scientists, these men and women laid the foundation of U.S. law. A complement to Great American Lawyers, together these two volumes create a complete picture of our nation's top legal minds from colonial times to today. Following an introduction on the role of judges in American history are A–Z biographical entries portraying this diverse group from extraordinarily different backgrounds. Students and history enthusiasts will appreciate the accomplishments of these role models and the connections between their inspiring lives and their far-reaching legal decisions. William Rehnquist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and 12 other Supreme Court justices are found alongside federal judges like Skelly Wright, who ordered school desegregation in 1960. Influential state judges such as Rose Elizabeth Bird, California's first woman Supreme Court Chief Justice, are also featured.

Author : Gene M. Burnett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781561647590

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Florida's Past, Vol 2 by Gene M. Burnett Pdf

Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperback. Burnett's easygoing style and his sometimes surprising choice of topics make history good reading. Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence. Read a chapter and you'll find you've gone on to read more. Read this volume and you'll find yourself looking for the next two. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Author : Robert Megarry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847310903

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A New Miscellany-at-Law by Robert Megarry Pdf

Should horses in Charleston be required to wear diapers? Does the hotchpot rule apply when dividing a testator's 17 residuary elephants? Which verse in the Old Testament was the life-saving 'neck' verse? May sexual intercourse be conducted on a without prejudice basis? These questions and many others like them are raised but not always fully answered in A New Miscellany-at-Law. This follows the same style as its two predecessors but consists of entirely new material, some of it suggested by the readers of the first two volumes. Like them, it collects accounts of strange and remarkable cases, striking court-room exchanges, wise and witty utterances from the Bench, and much else that illumines the law. For the common law world its reach is global, with many riches from the USA; and Scotland is not forgotten. Although the book is primarily for lawyers, a glossary and explanatory footnotes enable non-lawyers to share in the humour. Some may read the book from cover to cover; but for most there will be the pleasures of browsing, often surprisingly prolonged. A New Miscellany-at-Law also includes many other jewels. There is the touching Conveyancer's Ode to His Beloved, the court's refusal to consider whether bees should be classified as invitees, licensees or trespassers, a deplorable account of a wife being part-exchanged for a Newfoundland dog, the future Lord Denning's reference to a wife who was actually committing adultery while denying it in the witness box, and 'fustum funnidos tantaraboo' in Chancery.

Author : JIM BISHOP
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE MURDER TRAIL OF JUDGE PEEL by JIM BISHOP Pdf

Author : Susan P. Baker
Publisher : Susan Baker
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781618420787

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Murdered Judges -xld by Susan P. Baker Pdf

True tales of judges murdered in America in the 20th century, including those killed by strangers, family members, and unknown perpetrators. This book also includes a few who died in mysterious circumstances. Several murders remain unsolved. And the perpetrator remains at large in some. Anyone who ever worked at or near a courthouse will be intrigued by the happenings in this book and glad it didn't happen where they worked!

Author : Kevin M. McCarthy
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1561640123

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The Book Lover's Guide to Florida by Kevin M. McCarthy Pdf

"Here is the book lover's literary tour of Florida, an exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites in every part of the state. The state is divided into ten areas and each one is described from a literary point of view. You will learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, what important movies were made there, even the literary trivia which the true Florida book lover will want to know. You can use the book as a travel guide to a new way to see the state, as an armchair guide to a better understanding of our literary heritage, or as a guide to what to read next time you head to a bookstore or library."--Publisher.

Author : E. Lynne Wright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762791040

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Myths and Mysteries of Florida by E. Lynne Wright Pdf

Myths and Mysteries of Florida reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hovers over the Sunshine State. This book offers residents, travelers, history buffs, and ghost hunters a refreshingingly lively collection of stories about Florida's unsolved murders, legendary villains, lingering ghosts, terrifying myths, and haunted places.

Author : Mark Stobbe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000875348

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No-Body Homicides by Mark Stobbe Pdf

No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence. Based on an examination of over 600 cases in the United States and Canada, this book shows the length some killers will go to avoid punishment and the determination of police and prosecutors to bring them to justice. For over 300 years, murderers in the United States and Canada could avoid prosecution by successfully disposing of the body of their victim. No-Body Homicides provides the reader with a historical overview of prosecutions in which a killer destroyed or hid the body of the victim. It explains why prosecutions were once extremely rare, and how legal, attitudinal, and technical changes have made them more common. The book also explores how the logic of no-body homicide prosecutions differs from body-present homicides. It allows police and prosecutors to draw on the accumulated experience of hundreds of prosecutions. For criminology students, it provides fascinating insights into the process of investigating and prosecuting homicides – as well as a glimpse into the motivations and practices of killers who are so determined to avoid punishment that they remove the bodies of their victims. No-Body Homicides will be of practical interest to police or prosecutors confronted with a missing person’s case that could be sinister. It is also written to be appropriate as a supplementary text in an undergraduate criminology class or for an aficionado of “True Crime.”

Author : William E McGoun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781561647675

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Southeast Florida Pioneers by William E McGoun Pdf

The history of the Palm Beach area, the Treasure Coast, and Lake Okeechobee is one of turbulence, growth, and especially change. Meet the visionaries and outlaws, physicians and poets who shaped this region of southeast Florida from the 1690s through the 1990s. Author William McGoun's stories are sometimes hair-raising, sometimes amusing, and always engaging. Well researched and dotted with photos from The Palm Beach Post archives, this collection of mini-biographies reads like a who's who of Florida history.

Author : James Morton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781448133604

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Gangland: The Lawyers by James Morton Pdf

While many lawyers are honest, for Gangland figures, the best lawyer is often corrupt – a ‘shyster’ – who will act as a go between with the police, provide false alibis, bribe and intimidate witnesses, jurors and judges and occasionally organise robberies and burglaries. Sometimes these lawyers even kill or may be killed themselves. Gangland: The Lawyers brings us such lawyers as Frank Ragan, who acted for three mob leaders, and James Sawyer, the barrister and forger involved in the first Great train Robbery. From the amazing story of Gambino crime boss John Gotti (the ‘Teflon Don’) and his attorney Bruce Cutler, to the American judge Joseph Peel, who had his co-judge killed, James Morton presents a worldwide history of these shady individuals and their seedy but compelling stories.

Author : Stuart B. McIver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781561647637

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Murder in the Tropics by Stuart B. McIver Pdf

Here is the first statewide collection of true Florida murders, and, as the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. The Sunshine State has played host to a memorable and varied array of crimes of passion, greed, and revenge. In stories spanning from the 1860s to the 1990s, you will meet such varied characters as Lena Clarke, a killer with both her feet planted in a dozen bewildering worlds; Terry Jo, the Sea Waif; Chief Tigertail; the outlaw Ed Watson; Blue, the Enforcer; President Franklin Roosevelt; the Duke of Windsor; novelist Zora Neale Hurston; Lobster Boy; the Gulf Stream Pirate; Brother Gillette, a gentle Shaker who killed out of compassion; and Pensacola's Black Widow, a Spider Woman who killed without mercy. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

Author : Robin Odell,Wilfred Gregg
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752471280

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Murderers' Row by Robin Odell,Wilfred Gregg Pdf

Criminoloogist Robin Odell has compiled this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, the book includes doctors, millionaries, housewives, children, lawyers, accountants, officers and gentlemen who have succumbed to the killing instinct. Behind the sensational names concocted by the tabloid press - 'Boston Strangler', 'Dracula Killer', 'Night Stalker', 'Granny Killer' - lurk real murderers committing acts of violence in circumstances often more bizarre than fiction. Arranged in an easy-to-use A-Z format, the book contains over 500 cases from serial killers such as Dennis Nilsen and Ted Bundy, to those such as Jeremy Bamber and Steven Benson who dispatched their parents for money; from murderous New Zealand teenagers whose story made a successful film, to the many doctors and nurses who took life instead of saving it; from unsolved murders such as the murder of Little Gregory in France to the paid assignments of John Waynes Hearn, a Vietnam veteran who killed to order. The result is a classic of true crime, a definitive work on murder as a worldwide phenomenon.

Author : Synova Cantrell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979525889

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Grim Justice by Synova Cantrell Pdf

It's a tale of two judges; one a well-liked defender of the law, and the other a cold-blooded manipulator. Judge C.E. Chillingworth was by all accounts a man of honor, so why were he and his wife taken from their home on June 15, 1955, in the wee hours of the morning, bound, gagged, weighted down, and thrown into the ocean? Judge Joseph Peel was a rowdy young low-level judge that handled small disputes, warrants, and divorce settlements. Peel liked to live high above his means and supported his lavish lifestyle with underhanded criminal activities. Could his small con games really lead to murder, or was someone else to blame? When the Chillingworths disappear it would take nearly five years and one drunken hitman to finally uncover the truth behind West Palm Beach's "crime of the century."