Mahican track and casinos, private interests and other tribes opposed the deal. James Fenimore Cooper based his novel, "The Last of the Mohicans", on the Mahican tribe. His description includes some cultural aspects of the Mohegan, a different Algonquian tribe that lived in eastern Connecticut. Cooper set his novel in the Hudson Valley, Mahican land, but used some Mohegan names for his characters, such as Uncas. The novel has been adapted for the cinema more than a dozen times, the first time in 1920. Michael Mann directed a 1992 adaptation, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis as a Mohican-adopted white man. Mahican The
S v Cooper S v Cooper S v Cooper (1976), an important case in South African criminal procedure, dealt with endangering the maintenance of law and order in terms of the Terrorism Act. The court held that an accused is not entitled to be informed of every detail of the case against him and the prosecution should not be tied down with further particulars in a way which would limit its case unfairly at the trial. Thus where there are particulars unknown to the prosecutor, it is sufficient to state that fact. The use of particulars is intended to meet a requirement imposed