The Language of Murder Cases

Roger W. Shuy is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and the author of many previous books on language and law. Over the years has consulted on some 600 civil and criminal law cases and has testified at many federal, state trials as well as at the International Criminal Tribunal and before the US Congress on impeachment hearings.

• 1 Introduction ; 2 Murder laws and terminology ; 3 Analyzing murder law terminology and evidence ; 4 Linguistic profiling when there is no known murder suspect ; The Unabomber Case ; Gary Indiana women's medical clinic ; 5 Intentionality and predisposition in murder cases ; The State of Texas v. T. Cullen Davis ; The Crown v. Mohammed Arshad ; The State of Washington v. Michael Mockovac ; 6 Voluntariness in murder cases ; 7 Voluntariness of mentally incapacitated suspects capacity ; The State of Florida v. Jerry Townsend ; The State of Michigan v. Benjamin Hauswirth ; The State of Alaska v. Larry Gentry ; 8 Voluntariness of suspects impaired by alcohol or drugs ; The State of Nevada v. Shelli Dewey ; The State of Florida v. Robert Alben ; The State of Ohio v. Charles Lorraine ; 9 Voluntariness of juvenile suspects ; The State of Louisiana v. Michael Carter ; The State of Texas v. Kevin Rogers ; 10 Voluntariness of emotionally distraught suspects ; The State of Okahama v. Stephen Allen ; Commonwealth of Virginia v. Beverly Monroe ; 11 Reasonable doubt in murder cases ; References ; Cases cited ; Index

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