The trials of Eroy Brown : the murder case that shook the Texas prison system /

<P>In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of duty. The warden was drowned face down in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berryhill, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 31.
Temas:
Brown, Eroy.
Prison homicide > Texas > Case studies.
Prison administration > Corrupt practices > Texas > Case studies.
Trials (Murder) > Texas.
Prisons > Administration > Pratiques déloyales > Texas > Études de cas.
Procès (Meurtre) > Texas.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Prison administration > Corrupt practices.
Prison homicide.
Trials (Murder)
Texas.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A fishing trip to Ellis Prison
  • Death at Turkey Creek
  • Estelle's bitterness
  • A confusing scene
  • The aura of Ellis
  • The witch and the writ writers
  • The question of the gun
  • The shadow of Ruiz
  • Weasel
  • The dangers of testifying
  • Old thing
  • Eroy as aggressor
  • The defense is self-defense
  • Eroy's story
  • The perfect defendant
  • The TDC on trial
  • The arc of the moral universe
  • The shoes of Eroy Brown
  • Politics and prisons
  • The state tries again
  • A cat batters a mouse
  • Twenty-three jurors
  • Still not protected
  • Paying for justice
  • The end of an era
  • Free at last
  • Aftermath.

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