Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
Kunstler, William M. Excerpt from Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?: The Original Trial of Caryl ChessmanIn 1929, a car in which he and his mother were riding was involved in a collision at a busy Los Angeles intersection. In addition to a fractured skull, Mrs. Chessman had two crushed vertebrae and she was permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Caryl, who had been Sitting in the auto's back seat, appeared to be uninjured until X-rays revealed that he had broken both...