A celebrated case in 1734 in England concerned Judith Defour, found guilty of murdering her two-year old daughter. What was the reason she gave?
She needed to sell the child's clothes to buy gin Defour admitted she had stripped her child (Mary Cullender) of her clothes, tied a cloth hard round her throat to stifle crying, and left her in the field overnight while she sold the clothes and went to drink gin on the proceeds. The murder happened in the middle of the so-called Gin Craze in Great Britain.
Which legal case in 2000 famously saw decisions by the United States Supreme Court where the first two female Justices appointed to that Court were on opposite sides?
What was the English court case about in 1670, when the judge withheld food, water, and toilet facilities from jurors for 3 days as he was unsatisfied with their first decision and, when they returned a "not guilty" verdict, fined them?
