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Barrett J. Foerster

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Description:This book tells the dramatic story of twenty-eight law studentsOCoone of whom was the authorOCowho went south at the height of the civil rights era and helped change death penalty jurisprudence forever.aaa The 1965 project was organized by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which sought to prove statistically whether capital punishment in southern rape cases had been applied discriminatorily over the previous twenty years. If the research showed that a disproportionate number of African Americans convicted of raping white women had received the death penalty regardless of nonracial variables (such as the degree of violence used), then capital punishment in the South could be abolished as a clear violation of the Fourteenth AmendmentOCOs Equal Protection Clause.aaa Targeting eleven states, the students cautiously made their way past suspicious court clerks, lawyers, and judges to secure the necessary data from dusty courthouse records. Trying to attract as little attention as possible, they managedOCoamazinglyOCoto complete their task without suffering serious harm at the hands of white supremacists. Their findings then went to University of Pennsylvania criminologist Marvin Wolfgang, who compiled and analyzed the data for use in court challenges to death penalty convictions. The result was powerful evidence that thousands of jurors had voted on racial grounds in rape cases.aaa This book not only tells Barrett FoersterOCOs and his teammates story but also examines how the findings were used before a U.S. Supreme Court resistant to numbers-based arguments and reluctant to admit that the justice system had executed hundreds of men because of their skin color. Most important, it illuminates the role the project played in the landmark Furman v. Georgia case, which led to a four-year cessation of capital punishment and a more limited set of death laws aimed at constraining racial discrimination.A Virginia native who studied law at UCLA, Barrett J. Foerster (1942OCo2010) was a judge in the Superior Court in Imperial County, California.MICHAEL MELTSNER is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University. During the 1960s, he was first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. His books include The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer and Cruel and The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Race, Rape, and Injustice: Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era. To get started finding Race, Rape, and Injustice: Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book tells the dramatic story of twenty-eight law studentsOCoone of whom was the authorOCowho went south at the height of the civil rights era and helped change death penalty jurisprudence forever.aaa The 1965 project was organized by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which sought to prove statistically whether capital punishment in southern rape cases had been applied discriminatorily over the previous twenty years. If the research showed that a disproportionate number of African Americans convicted of raping white women had received the death penalty regardless of nonracial variables (such as the degree of violence used), then capital punishment in the South could be abolished as a clear violation of the Fourteenth AmendmentOCOs Equal Protection Clause.aaa Targeting eleven states, the students cautiously made their way past suspicious court clerks, lawyers, and judges to secure the necessary data from dusty courthouse records. Trying to attract as little attention as possible, they managedOCoamazinglyOCoto complete their task without suffering serious harm at the hands of white supremacists. Their findings then went to University of Pennsylvania criminologist Marvin Wolfgang, who compiled and analyzed the data for use in court challenges to death penalty convictions. The result was powerful evidence that thousands of jurors had voted on racial grounds in rape cases.aaa This book not only tells Barrett FoersterOCOs and his teammates story but also examines how the findings were used before a U.S. Supreme Court resistant to numbers-based arguments and reluctant to admit that the justice system had executed hundreds of men because of their skin color. Most important, it illuminates the role the project played in the landmark Furman v. Georgia case, which led to a four-year cessation of capital punishment and a more limited set of death laws aimed at constraining racial discrimination.A Virginia native who studied law at UCLA, Barrett J. Foerster (1942OCo2010) was a judge in the Superior Court in Imperial County, California.MICHAEL MELTSNER is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University. During the 1960s, he was first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. His books include The Making of a Civil Rights Lawyer and Cruel and The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Race, Rape, and Injustice: Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era. To get started finding Race, Rape, and Injustice: Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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