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From Death Row to Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

From Death Row to Freedom

Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award An insider’s account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and ob...

The Evolution of the Fourth Amendment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

The Evolution of the Fourth Amendment

This book explains the different approaches to interpreting the Fourth Amendment that the Supreme Court has used throughout American history, concentrating on the changes in interpretation since the Court applied the exclusionary rule to the states in 1961. It examines the evolution of the warrant rule and the exceptions to it, the reasonableness approach, the special needs approach, individual and society expectations of privacy, and the role of the exclusionary rule.

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 778

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Pretrial Settlement Conference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Pretrial Settlement Conference

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 870

Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1832
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Ebony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Ebony

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1983-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

York Deeds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 792

York Deeds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1910
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Task Force Report: The Courts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Task Force Report: The Courts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Dead Wrong
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Dead Wrong

Attitudes toward the death penalty have changed dramatically throughout the course of history, evolving from times when public executions were occasions of solemn and pious ritual to excuses for raucous entertainment, and finally to the modern era of private, bureaucratized, mechanized, and sanitized executions that are out of sight and out of mind. Conforming thus to modern sensibilities, state-sanctioned killing is somehow more acceptable to us than public hangings would have been, because we can imagine that the inmate's death is relatively painless, and not in violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. This may or may not be true; Stack presents...