Download or read book Cracker Justice written by Janet Post and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Texas cowboy, Jesse Pruitt, purchases land in Florida he quickly discovers ranching in Florida is uniquely different from ranching in Texas. When Jesse’s life intersects with Harriet Painter, a survivor of abuse at the hands of her uncle Buford, Malachai McQueen, the son of an El Paso working woman and others with names like Moccasin Bob and Pelo Berryhill, what results is a case of murder, stolen identity, a runaway girl in peril and a love story. Cracker Justice explores the true history of the Sara Sota Vigilance Committee, a group of prominent ranchers and business men who resorted to violent tactics to evict squatters and farmers from the open range. It is a novel of Florida’s outlaw history that blends historical fact with engaging fictional characters who revolve around the classic cowboy hero – Jesse Pruitt. Cracker Justice combines all the essential parts of a classic Cracker Western.
Download or read book Making Justice Our Business written by Stephen B. Boyd and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Justice Our Business is the story of Darryl Hunt, and of those drawn to him who refused to give up on him, each other, and justice. Boyd tells the story of how one summer morning in 1985, an attractive, white newspaper editor named Deborah Sykes was raped, brutally stabbed, and murdered in a Southern town. A 911 caller gave a false name--Sammy Mitchell--and the investigation quickly focused on him and his friend, Darryl Hunt, a black nineteen-year-old orphan. Facing public pressure and having a history with Mitchell, a District Attorney won a conviction before an all-white jury, sending Hunt to prison for life. Convinced of his innocence, a handful of people led a community effort to free him that turned into a nineteen-year struggle with a few exhilarating highs, but more discouraging, depressing defeats against an intractable justice system. Their dogged determination led to an improbable series of events in 2003 that broke the case open. This is the story of an extraordinary man told by a white, uneasy participant who came late to the struggle but was transformed by the process.
Download or read book Justice in the By ways written by Francis Colburn Adams and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1857 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Soloman, with an air of legal profundity, says: "This is all very well in its way, George, but it won't stand in law. The law is what you have got to get at. And when you have got at it, you must get round it; and then you must twist it and work it every which way-only be careful not to turn its points against yourself; that, you know, is the way we lawyers do the thing. You'll think we're a sharp lot; and we have to be sharp, as times are."
Download or read book Justice in the Bye ways written by Francis Colburn Adams and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Justice Institute annual Message of Chief Justice 1980 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Original written by Joan Biskupic and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court’s most provocative—and influential—justice If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that almost everything is open to interpretation. Almost. But what’s inarguable is that, while the Court has witnessed a succession of larger-than-life jurists in its two-hundred-year-plus history, it has never seen the likes of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Combative yet captivating, infuriating yet charming, the outspoken jurist remains a source of curiosity to observers across the political spectrum and on both sides of the ideological divide. And after nearly a quarter century on the bench, Scalia may be at the apex of his power. Agree with him or not, Scalia is “the justice who has had the most important impact over the years on how we think and talk about the law,” as the Harvard law dean Elena Kagan, now U.S. Solicitor General, once put it. Scalia electrifies audiences: to hear him speak is to remember him; to read his writing is to find his phrases permanently affixed in one’s mind. But for all his public grandstanding, Scalia has managed to elude biographers—until now. In American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the veteran Washington journalist Joan Biskupic presents for the first time a detailed portrait of this complicated figure and provides a comprehensive narrative that will engage Scalia’s adherents and critics alike. Drawing on her long tenure covering the Court, and on unprecedented access to the justice, Biskupic delves into the circumstances of his rise and the formation of his rigorous approach to the bench. Beginning with the influence of Scalia’s childhood in a first-generation Italian American home, American Original takes us through his formative years, his role in the Nixon-Ford administrations, and his trajectory through the Reagan revolution. Biskupic’s careful reporting culminates with the tumult of the contemporary Supreme Court—where it was and where it’s going, with Scalia helping to lead the charge. Even as Democrats control the current executive and legislative branches, the judicial branch remains rooted in conservatism. President Obama will likely appoint several new justices to the Court—but it could be years before those appointees change the tenor of the law. With his keen mind, authoritarian bent, and contentious rhetorical style, Scalia is a distinct and persuasive presence, and his tenure is far from over. This new book shows us the man in power: his world, his journey, and the far-reaching consequences of the transformed legal landscape.
Download or read book Juvenile Justice written by Preston Elrod and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The juvenile justice system is a multifaceted entity that continually changes under the influence of decisions, policies, and laws. The all new Fourth Edition of Juvenile Justice: A Social, Historical, and Legal Perspective, offers readers a clear and comprehensive look at exaclty what it is and how it works. Reader friendly and up-to-date, this text unravels the complexities of the juvenile justice system by exploring the history, theory, and components of the juvenile justice process and how they relate.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
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Download or read book Waiting for Yesterday written by Gerry Green and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James and Katie Falcon are astonished when a Time Ship appears in the cellar with their long-deceased ancestor Captain Horatio Falcon at the helm. The Ship includes a fresh food supply of two cows. Pandemonium breaks out when Great-Aunt Dorothea is faced with a cow in her lounge. The spooked second cow stumbles into the Time Ship’s controls, despatching the Ship into the past at ‘Lost Island’. But it is swarming with bloodthirsty treasure-seeking pirates and the crew’s odds of survival appear impossible. Then the youngsters discover the Time Ship’s mysterious source of power and the odds of their survival and their future change spectacularly.
Download or read book Jet written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Download or read book Bucking Conservatism written by Leon Crane Bear and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta’s conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta’s history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists seeking to forge a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book uncovers the lasting influence of Alberta’s noncomformists---those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics---and poses thought-provoking questions for contemporary activists.
Download or read book Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States at the with the Rules of Practice and the Acts of Congress Relating to the Court written by United States. Court of Claims and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States written by United States. Court of Claims and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shackled written by Candy J. Cooper and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist. In the early 2000s, Judge Mark Ciavarella and Judge Michael Conahan of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania were known as no-nonsense judges. Juveniles who showed up in their courtrooms faced harsh words and even harsher sentencing. In the post-Columbine era, many people believed that was just what the county needed to ensure its children and teens stayed on the straight and narrow path. But as more and more children faced shocking sentences for seemingly benign crimes, and a newly built for-profit detention center filled up further and further, a sinister pattern of abuses and bribery emerged. Through extensive research and original reporting leading into contemporary times, award-winning journalist Candy J. Cooper tells the story of a scandal that the Juvenile Law Center calls “one of the largest and most serious violations of children’s rights in the history of the American legal system.”
Download or read book Cracker Justice written by Ron Dahly and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story that reads like a novel: When the author, a secular man, moves south to take a job that one woman wants a minister to have instead, he faces a nemesis who's determined to force him to leave, at any cost, and who has friends in government with the power to make that happen. The author's 10 year quest to expose unbelievably egregious abuses of state power, perversions of justice, and the government conspiracy that brought about indictments, arrests, and a series of serious sham charges, cost him everything. INDUSTRY REVIEWS:"Dahly thoroughly and persuasively explores the power of the state and its shady, incompetent 'bureaucrat goons' and 'good-ole-boy backward judicial system' and how this unholy combination can force innocent defendants into the high-stakes lottery of praying for a fair judge and jury." ~Kirkus Reviews "Trapped in a swamp of bureaucracy, politics, and personal animosity, Ron Dahly faced trumped-up charges for abuse and financial fraud. The facts as they are related in Cracker Justice: A Real-Life Legal Thriller make Dahly a believable narrator who is dogged in pursuit of justice, saved by his own hard work and the aid of a generous attorney." ~ForeWord Clarion Reviews.
Download or read book Justice in the By Ways a Tale of Life written by F. Colburn Adams and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical fiction focuses on the life of Tom Swiggs, who in the beginning of the work gets dragged to the Charleston jail. Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life is written by Francis Colburn Adams, an American miscellaneous writer, formerly living in Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms. Adams, in the preface, states that a profound interest in the welfare of South Carolina and the high regard in which he held the better, and a more reasonable class of the state's citizens, encouraged him to sit down in Charleston and write this history some four years ago. Excerpt from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life "His mother, otherwise a kind sort of woman, sends him here. She believes it will work his reform. I pity her error-for it is an error to believe reform can come of punishment, or that virtue may be nurtured among vice." Thus responds the brusque but kind-hearted old jailer, who view swith an air of compassion his new comer, as he lays, a forlorn mass, exposed to the gaze of the prisoners gathering eagerly about him.
