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“Shuffling” Sam Thompson And Other Notes From The 1959 Term, Ralph J. Moore Jr.

Ralph Moore

A wry account of the work of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1959 Term by one of Chief Justice Earl Warren's law clerks. It gives accounts of the Court's handling of three cases that term, one involving Sam Thompson, who was harassed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, one involving Leon Wolfe and friends, who were convicted of criminal trespass for playing golf on a Jim Crow course on city-owned land in Greensboro, North Carolina, and one involving Clifton Poret and Edgar Labat, who spent years on death row in Louisiana after conviction for raping a white …