The Third Degree : The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

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"'The Third Degree' is the true story of a young man's abuse by the Washington police and an arduous, seven-year journey through the legal system that drew in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis, and J. Edgar Hoover. The ordeal culminated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seligman, Scott D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln [Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wan, Ziang Sun > Trials, litigation, etc.
Wan, Ziang Sung > Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Murder)
Diplomats.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Diplomates > Chine.
Proces (Meurtre) > États-Unis.
Diplomats > Crimes against > United States.
Diplomats > China.
Trials (Murder) > United States.
United States.
China.
Internet resources.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Men in a tub
  • An unwelcome guest
  • Murder at the mission
  • Incommunicado
  • Interrogation
  • Confession
  • Indictment and trial
  • Appeal
  • The third degree
  • The Supreme court
  • Retrial
  • Freedom
  • The Wickersham report
  • The road to Miranda.

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