Florence Maybrick and Jack the Ripper - Softcover

James, Kieran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0244038910 ISBN 13: 9780244038915

Verlag: Lulu.com, 2017

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The criminal trial of Mrs Florence Maybrick, held in Liverpool, England during the height of the British Empire 1889, is widely regarded as one of the greatest travesties of justice in British legal history. Mrs Maybrick was tried for murdering her husband via arsenic poisoning. However, the trial became a morality trial when the learned judge, Mr Justice James Fitzjames Stephen, linked Mrs Maybrick’s demonstrated adultery to her alleged desire to physically remove her husband by administering poison. The jury, which pronounced a guilty verdict, consisted of twelve untrained and unschooled men who were unable to grasp the technical evidence and were probably unduly influenced by the judge’s summing-up and by the professional status of one of the medical witnesses for the prosecution. The case is a timely reminder today for an international audience of the fallibility and inherent weaknesses of the legal system and the desperate need to retain Courts of Criminal Appeal within the courts system.

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Kieran James grew up in Perth, Australia, spent some time in Hong Kong, Singapore and Fiji, and now lives in Paisley, Scotland. He tries to visit Hong Kong every summer but could not make it there in 2020 because of the global coronavirus lockdowns. He hopes that 2019 will not be his Last Hong Kong Summer. He is a regular customer at the China Garden restaurant in Hong Kong's To Kwa Wan district, where the Blue Girl ager bottles are apparently excellent.

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• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0244038910
• ISBN 13: 9780244038915
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 48
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