Fair trial rights of the accused : a documentary history /

This collection of over 60 primary documents traces the evolution of trial rights from English and colonial beginnings to our contemporary understanding of their meaning. Court cases and other documents bring to life the controversies that have historically surrounded the rights of those who have be...

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Other Authors: Banaszak, Ronald A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Series:Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Trial rights in America's founding era
  • Early nineteenth-century trial rights
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, due process, and trial rights
  • Due process revolution
  • Sustaining the due process revolution.