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Difference Made Legal: The Court And Dr. King, David Luban
Difference Made Legal: The Court And Dr. King, David Luban
Michigan Law Review
My aim in this essay is to contrast two legal retellings of the same event: a set of demonstrations sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 that led to the arrest and incarceration of Martin Luther King, Jr. One is the Supreme Court majority opinion in Walker v. City of Birmingham, sustaining King's conviction; the other, King's own defense of his actions in his Letter from Birmingham Jail I wish to show how the self-same event entails radically different legal consequences when it appears in different narratives, one the Supreme Court's official voice, the …
The Law Of Pretrial Interrogation, Department Of Justice Office Of Legal Policy
The Law Of Pretrial Interrogation, Department Of Justice Office Of Legal Policy
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The existing rules in the United States governing the questioning of suspects in custody are based on the Supreme Court's five to four decision in Miranda v. Arizona. The Court in Miranda promulgated a new, code-like set of rules for custodial questioning, including the creation of a right to counsel in connection with custodial questioning, a requirement of warnings, a prohibition of questioning unless the suspect affirmatively waives the rights set out in the warnings, and a prohibition of questioning if the suspect asks for a lawyer or indicates in any manner that he is unwilling to talk. These …
Reimagining The Marshall Court, H. Jefferson Powell
Reimagining The Marshall Court, H. Jefferson Powell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Marshall Court and Cultural Change, 1815-1835 by G. Edward White