These events began when Sophia Charlotte was summoned as a witness in a divorce case, and apparently admitted to having an affair with the male defendant.

Its case studies show the various ways miscarriages of justice take place, from mistaken eyewitness testimony to racist presumptions about black male defendants.

Peter Bunch, an Australian and the other male defendant, was unsatisfied.

Others say that male defendants rage at being lectured by a woman in pearls.

But so do many male defendants.

The male defendant was sentenced to a minimum of 58 years in prison:

It was raining, and he saw no pedestrians until, within moments, he encountered the male defendant walking rapidly away from the scene of the crime.

First, the Court held that an indictment for the polygamy offense (which only applied to male defendants) need not allege the gender of the defendant.

Are men more likely to sympathize with a male defendant on a paternity charge?

And new "rape shield" laws led to assertions that male defendants' rights had been compromised.