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Viser: Weather in the Courtroom - Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology
Weather in the Courtroom
Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology
William H. Haggard
(2017)
Sprog: Engelsk
om ca. 10 hverdage
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- Paperback: 224 sider
- Udgiver: University of Chicago Press (Februar 2017)
- ISBN: 9781940033952
For a society enthralled by courtroom drama, forensics, and natural disasters, Weather in the Courtroom is a perfect storm: an exciting inside scoop on legendary court cases where the weather may--or may not--have played a crucial role. Haggard explores both the meteorological facts and human stories of a variety of high-profile cases among the hundreds in which, after retiring from the government, he served as an expert witness. Were the disappearance of Alaskan Congressman Nick Begich's plane on October 16, 1972; the collapse of Tampa Bay's Skyway Bridge on May 9, 1980; and the crash of Delta Flight 191 in Dallas/Fort Worth on August 2, 1985, natural or human-caused disasters? Haggard's recounting of these and other litigations reveals just how critical the interpretation of weather and climate data in the courtroom is to our understanding of what happened--and who, if anyone, is at fault.
089: Revealing Oil Stains 5 Delta
191: "Lightning Out of That One" 6 Lake Coamo Flood: An Act of God? 7 White Mountain Apache Tribe v. USA: Mismanagement 8 Webb, Riding, and Charlesworth v. USA: Whiteout at Roswell 9 New England Storm of July 10,
1989: Mohawk and Black Rock 10 Downing v. Bowater: Like Driving Into a Marshmallow 11 Palatka Paper Mill: The Other Side of the Coin 12 McNair v. USA: Obstructing Clouds 13 APL China: Christmas Overboard 14 State of North Carolina v. Michael Peterson: Cool by the Pool 15 Looking Back over the Years Acknowledgements Appendix About the Author References