 Case Studies (with Jury Instructions)
Murder 
Columbus, Ohio Highway Sniper [Court TV case coverage] [Jury Instructions]
The Novelist Murder case--North Carolina [Court TV case coverage] [jury instructions]
Scott Peterson (California) Murder Case [Court TV case coverage] [jury instructions]
Danielle van Dam Murder Case (California) [Court TV case coverage] [jury instructions]
O.J. Simpson Case (California) ['Lectric Law Library] [O.J. Simpson Murder Case--CourtTV coverage]
Antifreeze Murder Case--Georgia [Court TV case coverage] [jury instructions]
Honor Student Kills Teacher [Court TV case coverage] [jury instructions]
An Idaho Teenager Kills Her Parents [Court TV case coverage] [jury instructions]
Casino Mogul Murder Case (Neveda) [CourtTV case coverage] [jury instructions]
Voluntary Manslaughter
NBA Basketball star Jayson Williams--Gun Play/manslaughter case--New Jersey [Court TV case coverage] [jury instructions]
Student Problem Cases [from CourtTV files]
Murder
Secret Life, Murdered Wife [based on CourtT
The Black Widow of Las Vegas? [based on CourtTV case coverage]
Dog Mauling Murder Case [based on CourtTV case coverage]
Voluntary Manslaughter
Driver of Van Carrying Developmentally Disabled Patients Crashes Killing Two of the Passengers
Involuntary Manslaughter
Hockey Game Manslaughter/Self-Defense Case (Massachusetts)
Retired Dentist Tried for Giving Two Kids Arsenic, Killing One (Massachusetts) (Accident or Manslaughter) [Trial scheduled for 2006] [Court TV reports that: "[T]he standard jury instruction in Massachusetts law, involuntary manslaughter is 'an unlawful homicide, unintentionally caused, either during the commission of a battery in circumstances in which a defendant knows or should know that the battery which [he] is committing endangers human life or by an omission to act when there is a duty to act which constitutes such a disregard of probable consequences to another as to constitute wanton or reckless conduct."]
Defenses: Provocation
A Hmong Refugee Kills Deer Hunters
Defenses: Insanity
Workplace Massacre Insanity Trial
Stoning Insanity Trial
Mother Accused of Shooting Her 4-year-old Twins to Death
Conspiracy to Murder
A Carolina Panther Football Player Faces Capital Murder Charge
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