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Search - Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty

Habeas Corpus Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty
Author: Eric Freedman

"This is an engaging book and an important addition to the literature on judicial decision-making, constitutional law, and individual rights and protections." — ? The Law and Politics Book Review "Freedman's approach is refreshingly different. He has greatly expanded our knowledge about three critical events in the development of habeas c... more »orpus doctrine....quite extraordinary."

?H-Net Book Review "An original and important document for historians and advocates alike."

?The Historian "Freedman's lively prose and careful analysis of early debates and research into the politics, passions and history of the times give us a new picture of the background to habeas corpus as we know it now."

?New York Law Journal "Habeas Corpus is a trustworthy account by a distinguished legal historian. It serves both scholars who wish to revisit the underpinnings of habeas corpus as well as beginners seeking to understand what this process has meant to our system."

?Legal Times "Legal analysis at its best."

?Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College Habeas Corpus is the process by which state prisoners?particularly those on death row?appeal to federal courts to have their convictions overturned. Its proper role in our criminal justice system has always been hotly contested, especially in the wake of 1996 legislation curtailing the ability of prisoners to appeal their sentences. In this timely volume, Eric M. Freedman reexamines four of the Supreme Court's most important habeas corpus rulings: one by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1807 concerning Aaron Burr's conspiracy, two arising from the traumatic national events of the 1915 Leo Frank case and the 1923 cases growing out of murderous race riots in Elaine County, Arkansas, and one case from 1953 that dramatized some of the ugliest features of the Southern justice of the period. In each instance, Freeman uncovers new original sources and tells the stories of the cases through such documents as the Justices' draft opinions and the memos of law clerk William H. Rehnquist. In bracing and accessible language, Freedman then presents an interpretation that rewrites the conventional view. Building on these results, he challenges legalistic limits on habeas corpus and demonstrates how a vigorous writ is central to implementing the fundamental conceptions of individual liberty and constrained government power that underlie the Constitution.

ISBN-13: 9780814727188
ISBN-10: 0814727182
Publication Date: 5/1/2003
Pages: 254
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Paperback
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