William B. Meyer is Associate Professor of Geography at Colgate University. He is the author of Americans and Their Weather: A History, among other books.

"Meyer … explores the origins of the case and discovers a key fact that significantly alters what the judges who decided it faced. He convincingly shows why that case was an anomaly in the jurisprudence of its era and for some time after [and] how and why it was raised by later legal commentators into an example of ‘excellence in judicial reasoning.'" — Richard Hamm, University at Albany, State University of New York "A major achievement of the book is the use of primary documents to supplement and explain the Riggs decision. The thorough research of primary documents corrects a frequently made assumption about the underlying facts." — Debora Threedy, Emerita Professor of Law, University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Crime and Punishment2. An Anomalous Decision3. The Grounds for Rejection4. Explaining an Anomaly5. A Case Transformed6. Riggs, Case Biography, and Legal ArchaeologyEpilogue: Second LivesIndex

William B. Meyer is Associate Professor of Geography at Colgate University. He is the author of Americans and Their Weather: A History, among other books.

"Meyer … explores the origins of the case and discovers a key fact that significantly alters what the judges who decided it faced. He convincingly shows why that case was an anomaly in the jurisprudence of its era and for some time after [and] how and why it was raised by later legal commentators into an example of ‘excellence in judicial reasoning.'" — Richard Hamm, University at Albany, State University of New York "A major achievement of the book is the use of primary documents to supplement and explain the Riggs decision. The thorough research of primary documents corrects a frequently made assumption about the underlying facts." — Debora Threedy, Emerita Professor of Law, University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Crime and Punishment2. An Anomalous Decision3. The Grounds for Rejection4. Explaining an Anomaly5. A Case Transformed6. Riggs, Case Biography, and Legal ArchaeologyEpilogue: Second LivesIndex

William B. Meyer is Associate Professor of Geography at Colgate University. He is the author of Americans and Their Weather: A History, among other books.

"Meyer … explores the origins of the case and discovers a key fact that significantly alters what the judges who decided it faced. He convincingly shows why that case was an anomaly in the jurisprudence of its era and for some time after [and] how and why it was raised by later legal commentators into an example of ‘excellence in judicial reasoning.'" — Richard Hamm, University at Albany, State University of New York "A major achievement of the book is the use of primary documents to supplement and explain the Riggs decision. The thorough research of primary documents corrects a frequently made assumption about the underlying facts." — Debora Threedy, Emerita Professor of Law, University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Crime and Punishment2. An Anomalous Decision3. The Grounds for Rejection4. Explaining an Anomaly5. A Case Transformed6. Riggs, Case Biography, and Legal ArchaeologyEpilogue: Second LivesIndex