St. L. Rev. 465. In 1999, Dr. Sheppard's son, Sam Reese Sheppard, brought acivil action based on wrongful conviction to clear his father's name affirmatively. He lost, the juryfinding that he had no...
So if you’re not familiar with the Dr. Sam Sheppard story, here’s a brief history. On the night of July 3, 1954, the good doctor and his pregnant wife Marilyn were entertaining neighbors in their Ohio home, but the following morning Sheppard said he was awakened by his wife screaming...
Sam Westing is a millionaire businessman in The Westing Game and the author of the strange competition which is central to this book. This competition is written in Westing's will and is designed to determine who will inherit the Westing estate. Westing also lives under multiple aliases, ...
As a resource for journalism students and law students, I have posted examples of prejudicial pretrial publicity in newspapers for both (1) the 1954 trial of Sam Sheppard and (2) the arrest in 2004 of Joseph Smith, who kidnapped, raped, and murdered a girl in Florida. These two cases ...
Kate Sheppard Kate Sheridan Kate Smith Kate Voigt Katelyn N. Rowe Katelyn Polantz Katharina Obser Katharine Gordon and John Bruning Katherine Culliton-Gonzalez Katherine H. Reilly Katherine Mangan Kathleen Guthrie Woods Kathleen Sullivan Kathryn Mattingly Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigratio...
Analysis: Civil trial in case of Dr. Sam Sheppard scheduled to begin in Cleveland; son is trying to prove his father was falsely convictedBOB EDWARDS