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When a jury returns to a packed courtroom to announce its verdict in a capital murder case every noise, even a scraped chair or an opening door, resonates like a high-tension cable snap. Spectators stop rustling in their seats; prosecution and defense lawyers and the accused stiffen into attitudes of wariness; and the judge looks on owlishly. In that atmosphere of heightened expectation the jury entered a Riverside County Superior Court room in southern California to render a decision in the trial of Raymond Oyler, charged with murder for setting the Esperanza Fire of 2006, which killed a five

Cover title. ; Caption title: Trial and sentence of John Maclean before the Lord Justice General and a jury, at Edinburgh, on Thursday, 9th Man [sic], 1918. ; "Published by Clyde Workers' Propaganda Defence Committee." ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44