Carthage Conspiracy deals with the general problem of Mormon/non-Mormon conflict, as well as with the dramatic story of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, and their alleged assassins. It places the infamous event at the Carthage jail (1846) and the subsequent murder-conspiracy trial in the context of Mormon and American legal history, and deals with the question of achieving justice when crimes are politically motivated and popularly supported.| Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Court Week in Carthage 2. "Murder . . . by a Respectable Set of Men" 3. "To Vindicate the . . . Broken Pledge of the State" 4. Elections and Indictments 5. To Secure Pre-Trial Advantage 6. The Courtroom and the Contestants 7. A Jury of "Intelligence, Probity and Worth" 8. "Quiet Perjury to Screen a Murder" 9. "Suppositions Ought not to Hang Anyone" 10. To "Tranquilize the Public Mind" 11. "Away to a Land of Peace" 12. "The People Reign in the American Political World" Afterword Appendix—Religious Persuasion of Jurors Bibliographical Note Index | Winner of the Mormon History Association Award for Best Book of the Year — Mormon History Association
|Dallin H Oaks is an American attorney, jurist, author, professor, public speaker, and religious leader. Since 1984, he has been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was president of Brigham Young University (BYU), a professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School, and a justice of the Utah Supreme Court.