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Title: Criminal Law & Procedure: A Background on the Elements of Crimes and the Rights of Defendants

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Edwin King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The United States has one of the most technically sound criminal justice systems in the world. Mostly derived from English common law, the US Constitution explicitly lays out when and how a citizen can be searched and arrested, as well as their other rights to trial. But, as with many of the Constitution's powers, the experiences of the colonists at the hands of the British shaped our legal system's criminal procedure laws.

Like most of American jurisprudence, American criminal law is rooted in the early American settler's experience with British law. In fact, when Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence and listed the "repeated injuries and usurpations" of the British monarchy, he named no less than five alleged offenses implicating the criminal justice system. Jefferson noted the King had "refus[ed] his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers," and he had "made judges dependent on his will alone." Jefferson also accused the British of conducting "mock trials" to protect their own soldiers who had committed crimes against the colonists, while depriving colonists of the rights to a trial by jury of their own peers.

Criminal procedure is a subset of constitutional law that focuses on the procedures by which authorities investigate, prosecute, and adjudicate crimes. Criminal procedure rules frame the behavior of police, prosecutors, and judges when they seek to apprehend, charge, and convict those suspected of committing a crime to ensure that the suspect's constitutional rights are protected.

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Title: Northern Armageddon

Subtitle: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution

Author: D. Peter MacLeod

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-22-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The Battle of the Plains of Abraham is one of the pivotal events in North American and global history. This clash between British general James Wolfe and French general Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on September 13, 1759, led to the British victory in the Seven Years' War in North America, which in turn led to the creation of Canada and the United States as we know them today.

Rooted in original research, featuring quotations that have never appeared before, Northern Armageddon immerses the listener in the campaign, battle, and siege through the eyes of dozens of participants, such as British sailor William Hunter, four Quebec residents enduring the bombing of their city, and a teenage Huron warrior. Shifting from perspective to perspective, we move from the bombardment of Quebec to the field of combat, where Montcalm and Wolfe gave their orders but thousands of individual soldiers determined the outcome of the battle. In the final chapters, MacLeod traces the battle's impact on Canada, the United States, both countries' aboriginals, and the world, from 1759 into the 21st century.

Critic Reviews:

"MacLeod, a pre-Confederation historian at the Canadian War Museum, has written what is surely the definitive account of the battle.... Those who like to dress up as soldiers and re-enact the battle will discover the compass points of every strategic position and exactly how many cartridges to carry.... This kind of details is clearly of great interest to some readers, but MacLeod does not neglect the distinctly unstrategic and often mundane details that make or break a war, such as the cartloads of pork and beans, driven by women and children, that saved Canada time and again." (Canadian Geographic)

"Rooted in original research, featuring quotations and images that have never appeared before, Northern Armageddon immerses the reader in the campaign, battle and siege through the eyes of dozens of participants." (History Society)

"MacLeod is the pre-Confederation historian at the Canadian War Museum and his splendidly written and researched book makes clear that the battle was a close-run struggle." (Legion Magazine)

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Title: The Battle of Gettysburg

Subtitle: American Heritage Series

Author: Bruce Catton

Narrator: Eric Martin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

From the opening shots to General George Pickett's ill-fated charge, Bruce Catton tells the dramatic story of the battle that resulted in more than 51,000 Union and Confederate casualties and changed the course of the war.

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