Black Rage Confronts the Law
In 1971, Paul Harris pioneered the modern version of the black rage defense when he successfully defended a young black man charged with armed bank robbery. Dubbed one of the most novel criminal defenses in American history by Vanity Fair, the black rage defense is enormously controversial, frequently dismissed as irresponsible, nothing less than a harbinger of anarchy. Consider the firestorm of protest that resulted when the defense for Colin Ferguson, the gunman who murdered numerous passengers on a New York commuter train, claimed it was considering a black rage defense. In this thought-provoking book, Harris traces the origins of the blac…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-3592-3
- EAN: 9780814735923
- Produktnummer: 1479147
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 306 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.3 cm 417 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 19
- Gewicht: 417
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Paul Harris worked with the San Francisco Community Law Collective for sixteen years, during which time he was described as one of the best criminal defense lawyers in America. A past president of the National Lawyers Guild, he is Charles Garry Professor of Law at New College, a public-interest law school in San Francisco. He received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
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