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100 1 _aKunstler, William M.
_q(William Moses),
_d1919-1995
245 1 4 _a... and justice for all
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-17
508 _aAlan, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"... and justice for all" by William M. Kunstler is a collection of legal case studies written in the mid-20th century. It examines how fear, prejudice, and politics can distort American justice, reinterpreting high-profile trials of radicals, racial minorities, and dissenters to probe the limits of due process and jury fairness. The opening of the book presents Roger N. Baldwin’s introduction stressing how community hostility can overwhelm due process, followed by a preface in which the author states his aim: to show, through ten emblematic cases, how “who you are” can outweigh “what you did.” The first chapter reconstructs the Lincoln assassination aftermath and the military commission trial of Mary Surratt, highlighting key witnesses, the defense’s failed challenge to jurisdiction, a climate primed for conviction, and her execution despite contested evidence. The second chapter sketches the Leo Frank case from Mary Phagan’s death through shifting suspicion (from a Black watchman to Jim Conley), conflicting timelines, rampant antisemitism, conviction and failed appeals, and a commutation that ended in lynching. The third chapter begins the Tom Mooney story with the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing, showing sloppy evidence handling, an eager prosecution backed by business interests, and early grand-jury testimony placing suspects at the scene. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cDobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1963
653 _aCrime -- United States
653 _aTrials -- United States
856 4 _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063528130
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78229
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