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001			on1154532858
003			OCoLC
005			20201130115732.0
008			200616s2020 ohua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2020027548
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dMEA _dHHO _dNFG
020			_a9781606354094 _q(paperback)
020			_a1606354094 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1154532858
042			_apcc
043			_an-us-nh
092			_a345.742 _bR859
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aRounds, Leslie L., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aI have struck Mrs. Cochran with a stake : _bsleepwalking, insanity, and the trial of Abraham Prescott / _cLeslie Lambert Rounds.
263			_a2010
264		1	_aKent, Ohio : _bthe Kent State University Press, _c[2020]
300			_axi, 264 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe Killing -- The Cochran family -- Sally and Chauncey Cochran -- Nighttime attack -- The Prescott family -- Indictment and incarceration -- The prosecution presents its case -- The defense's opening argument -- The defense discusses sleepwalking -- The Avery connection -- Mental illness in the Prescott family -- The physicians begin their testimony -- More physicians for the defense -- The Prosecution rebuts -- The defense begins its closing argument -- Closing arguments conclude -- Verdict and retrial -- Reprieve, riots, and execution -- New Hampshire's need for an asylum -- The sleepwalking defense evolves -- The insanity plea -- The Question of responsibility.
520			_a"After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Cochran in his sleep. The Cochrans eventually recovered but-to the astonishment of their neighbors-kept Prescott on, somehow accepting his strange story. This decision would come back to haunt them. While picking strawberries with Sally in an isolated field the following summer, Prescott used a fence post to violently kill the young mother. His explanation was again the same; he told Chauncey he'd fallen asleep and the next thing he knew, Sally was dead. Prescott's attorneys would use both a sleepwalking claim and an insanity plea in his defense, despite the historically dismal success rates of these arguments. In the two murder trials that followed, Prescott was convicted and sentenced to death both times. Prescott's crime has landmark significance, however, notably because many believed the boy was mentally ill and should never have been executed. The case also highlights the discriminatory role class plays in the American justice system. Using contemporaneous accounts as well as information from other insanity and sleepwalking defenses, author Leslie Lambert Rounds reconstructs the crime and raises important questions about privilege, societal discrimination against the mentally ill and the disadvantaged, and the unfortunate secondary role of women in history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aPrescott, Abraham, _d1815?-1836 _vTrials, litigation, etc.
650		0	_aTrials (Murder) _zNew Hampshire.
650		0	_aSleepwalking.
650		0	_aInsanity (Law)
600	1	0	_aCochran, Sally, _d-1833.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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