Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People's Justice - Couverture souple

Houppert, Karen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1620970260 ISBN 13 : 9781620970263

Editeur : The New Press, 2015

Synopsis

A half-century after Anthony Lewis' award-winning Gideon's Trumpet (Random House, 1964) chronicled the story of the Gideon v. Wainwright court case (which ensures poor defendants are provided with lawyers by the state), A Muted Trumpet picks up where he left off. Reporter Karen Houppert examines the legacy of the decision, chronicling the cases of defendants who have relied on Gideon's promise, bringing renewed attention to an essential but failing aspect of the US criminal justice system and offering insight into how it might be saved.

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À propos de l?auteur

Karen Houppert has written for the Washington Post Magazine, The Nation, Newsday, the New York Times, Mother Jones, the Village Voice, Salon, and many other publications. She is the author of Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military--For Better or Worse and The Cure: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo--Menstruation. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she teaches at Johns Hopkins University and at Morgan State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The New Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1620970260
• ISBN 13: 9781620970263
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 278
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