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Treason on Trial

Author : Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807171425
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Treason on Trial written by Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, federal officials captured, imprisoned, and indicted Jefferson Davis for treason. If found guilty, the former Confederate president faced execution for his role in levying war against the United States. Although the federal government pursued the charges for over four years, the case never went to trial. In this comprehensive analysis of the saga, Treason on Trial, Robert Icenhauer-Ramirez suggests that while national politics played a role in the trial’s direction, the actions of lesser-known individuals ultimately resulted in the failure to convict Davis. Early on, two primary factions argued against trying the case. Influential northerners dreaded the prospect of a public trial, fearing it would reopen the wounds of the war and make a martyr of Davis. Conversely, white southerners pointed to the treatment and prosecution of Davis as vindictive on the part of the federal government. Moreover, they maintained, the right to secede from the Union remained within the bounds of the law, effectively linking the treason charge against Davis with the constitutionality of secession. While Icenhauer-Ramirez agrees that politics played a role in the case, he suggests that focusing exclusively on that aspect obscures the importance of the participants. In the United States of America v. Jefferson Davis, preeminent lawyers represented both parties. According to Icenhauer-Ramirez, Lucius H. Chandler, the local prosecuting attorney, lacked the skill and temperament necessary to put the case on a footing that would lead to trial. In addition, Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase had little desire to preside over the divisive case and intentionally stymied the prosecution’s efforts. The deft analysis in Treason on Trial illustrates how complications caused by Chandler and Chase led to a three-year delay and, eventually, to the dismissal of the case in 1868, when President Andrew Johnson granted blanket amnesty to those who participated in the armed rebellion.

Secession on Trial

Author : Cynthia Nicoletti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108415520
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Secession on Trial written by Cynthia Nicoletti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the treason trial of President Jefferson Davis, where the question of secession's constitutionality was debated.

The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr

Author : R. Kent Newmyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560948
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr written by R. Kent Newmyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's best lawyers. It also pitted President Thomas Jefferson (who declared Burr guilty without the benefit of a trial and who masterminded the prosecution), Chief Justice John Marshall (who sat as a trial judge in the federal circuit court in Richmond) and former Vice President Aaron Burr (who was accused of planning to separate the western states from the Union) against each other. At issue, in addition to the life of Aaron Burr, were the rights of criminal defendants, the constitutional definition of treason and the meaning of separation of powers in the Constitution. Capturing the sheer drama of the long trial, Kent Newmyer's book sheds new light on the chaotic process by which lawyers, judges and politicians fashioned law for the new nation.

The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding Father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton, resulting in a murder indictment that effectively ended his legal career. And when he turned his attention to entrepreneurial activities on the frontier he was suspected of empire building - and worse." "In the first book dedicated to this important case, Peter Charles Hoffer unveils a cast of characters ensnared by politics and law at the highest levels of government, including President Thomas Jefferson - one of Burr's bitterest enemies - and Chief Justice John Marshall, no fan of either Burr or Jefferson. Hoffer recounts how Jefferson's prosecutors argued that the mere act of discussing an "overt Act of War" - the constitution's definition of treason - was tantamount to committing the act. Marshall, however, ruled that without the overt act, no treasonable action had occurred and neither discussion nor conspiracy could be prosecuted. Subsequent attempts to convict Burr on violations of the Neutrality Act failed as well."--BOOK JACKET.

Treason

Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0310259339
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Treason written by Don Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Muslim terrorists infiltrate the Navy Chaplain Corps, Lieutenant Zack Brewer, just three years out of law school, is pitted against the world's greatest defense attorney in the court-martial of the century.

The Law of Treason and Treason Trials in Later Medieval France

Author : S. H. Cuttler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526432
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Treason and Treason Trials in Later Medieval France written by S. H. Cuttler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the theoretical framework, legal complexities and enforcement of the French treason law.

The Tokyo Rose Case

Author : Yasuhide Kawashima
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619054
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Tokyo Rose Case written by Yasuhide Kawashima and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iva Ikuku Toguri (1916-2006) was an American citizen, born on the 4th of July. Her parents, first-generation Japanese Americans, embraced their new nation and raised Iva to think, talk, and act like a patriotic American. But, despite her allegiance to the United States, she was forced to spend most of her adult life denying that she was a traitor or that she was World War II's infamous Tokyo Rose. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Iva was nursing an ailing aunt in Japan. Prevented from returning to home, she was viewed with suspicion by the Japanese authorities. They hounded her to renounce her American citizenship, which she adamantly refused to do. Pressured to find employment, she joined Radio Tokyo. Known as Orphan Ann, she did nothing more than emcee brief music segments on "The Zero Hour" during the war's last two years. She was never called "Tokyo Rose" by anyone and was but one of only a dozen or so English-speaking females heard on Japanese airwaves. In need of money to return home after the war, she made the mistake of allowing herself to be interviewed by two ambitious journalists who were certain that she was the Tokyo Rose, even though she denied it. The published story brought Iva to the attention of American authorities who tried and convicted Iva for treason, despite the lack of evidence and a reluctant jury. She was then stripped of her citizenship and sent to prison. Yasuhide Kawashima's account of Toguri's trials are deeply rooted in Japanese language sources, American legal archives, and the cultures of both nations. He identifies heroes and villains in both the United States and Japan and also highlights broader concerns: the internment of thousands of loyal Japanese Americans, the meaning of citizenship, the nation's commitment to the idea of fair trial, the impact of tabloid journalism, and the very concept of treason. Iva was eventually pardoned in 1977 by President Gerald Ford—she was the first person in U.S. history to be pardoned for treason—and had her citizenship restored. Yet when she died in 2006, obituaries continued to identify her as Tokyo Rose. Kafkaesque in its telling, Kawashima's tale provides a harsh reminder that the law does not always render justice.

A Just Defiance

Author : Peter Harris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953703
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Just Defiance written by Peter Harris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a riveting courtroom drama and a real-life thriller, A Just Defiance tells the story of four young black South Africans who were arrested for a string of political murders in 1987. In gripping prose, Peter Harris—the white lawyer who defended the men—describes how he came to understand, while constructing the case to save the defendants from the death penalty, the chain of events that led them to undergo training at ANC camps in Angola and return to their homeland to execute some of the apartheid regime's most notorious collaborators. The shocking twists and turns of the high-profile trial kept the public in suspense during the dying days of apartheid. Harris’s account of the trial is intercut with flashbacks to instances of the cold-blooded brilliance and deadly efficiency of the squad's operations. We see Nelson Mandela recently released from Robben Island as he begins negotiations that will eventually lead to the assumption of power by the ANC. We read about bomb-making and assassination attempts by both the ANC and the South African police. A critical and popular success in South Africa, this book is a tale of people driven to extremes by injustice and repression, and of ordinary citizens caught up in extraordinary events. Finally, it is the story of a country’s search for reconciliation, one that captures the moral vertigo of South Africa's violent apartheid years.

Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War

Author : Jonathan W. White
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807142158
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War written by Jonathan W. White and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman petitioned Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger B. Taney for release through a writ of habeas corpus. Taney issued the writ, but President Abraham Lincoln ignored it. In mid-July Merryman was released, only to be indicted for treason in a Baltimore federal court. His case, however, never went to trial and federal prosecutors finally dismissed it in 1867. In Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War, Jonathan White reveals how the arrest and prosecution of this little-known Baltimore farmer had a lasting impact on the Lincoln administration and Congress as they struggled to develop policies to deal with both northern traitors and southern rebels. His work exposes several perennially controversial legal and constitutional issues in American history, including the nature and extent of presidential war powers, the development of national policies for dealing with disloyalty and treason, and the protection of civil liberties in wartime.

The Treason and Trial of Sir John Perrot

Author : Roger Turvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treason and Trial of Sir John Perrot written by Roger Turvey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book breaks new ground in that it offers a reassessment of Perrot's career and of his trial, and it contributes to existing research in the field of political affairs in late Elizabethan England and Ireland. It is hoped that this study will restore a great Elizabethan who hailed from Wales to his rightful place in history. The tale of Sir John Perrot's trial and treason will appeal to anyone interested in matters of secrecy, betrayal, loyalty and, ultimately, in miscarriages of justice."--BOOK JACKET.

The Trials of Allegiance

Author : Carlton F. W. Larson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190932740
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Allegiance written by Carlton F. W. Larson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trials of Allegiance examines the law of treason during the American Revolution: a convulsive, violent civil war in which nearly everyone could be considered a traitor, either to Great Britain or to America. Drawing from extensive archival research in Pennsylvania, one of the main centers of the revolution, Carlton Larson provides the most comprehensive analysis yet of the treason prosecutions brought by Americans against British adherents: through committees of safety, military tribunals, and ordinary criminal trials. Although popular rhetoric against traitors was pervasive in Pennsylvania, jurors consistently viewed treason defendants not as incorrigibly evil, but as fellow Americans who had made a political mistake. This book explains the repeated and violently controversial pattern of acquittals. Juries were carefully selected in ways that benefited the defendants, and jurors refused to accept the death penalty as an appropriate punishment for treason. The American Revolution, unlike many others, would not be enforced with the gallows. More broadly, Larson explores how the Revolution's treason trials shaped American national identity and perceptions of national allegiance. He concludes with the adoption of the Treason Clause of the United States Constitution, which was immediately put to use in the early 1790s in response to the Whiskey Rebellion and Fries's Rebellion. In taking a fresh look at these formative events, The Trials of Allegiance reframes how we think about treason in American history, up to and including the present.

The Trial of Pierre Laval

Author : J. Kenneth Brody
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351297740
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Pierre Laval written by J. Kenneth Brody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stunning work combining historical memory, legal ambiguity, and profound issues of justice, J. Kenneth Brody provides a picture of France in World War II that continues to haunt the present. Architect in 1940 of Marshal Petain's Vichy French regime and its prime minister from April 1942 to August 1944, at war's end Pierre Laval was promptly arrested on charges of treason. This book tells the story of his trial. Did he betray France, or did he serve France under terrible circumstances? What was the truth of "collaboration"? This book considers the pretrial proceedings, or lack thereof, the evidence, and the arguments of the prosecution, as well as Laval's vigorous defense in the early days of the trial. Because of irregularities in the preliminary proceedings, Laval's defense counsel declined from the outset to participate in the trial. For those reasons and because of the prejudicial conduct of the prosecution, on the third day of the trial, Pierre Laval also declined to participate further. What his defense might have been in a normal pre-trial proceeding and in a fair trial are matters of conjecture. What remains clear is that political trials are a unique form of law and moral judgment. Trials and history share a common goal-the truth. Trial, judgment, and appeal are intended to produce finality. History, on the other hand, is never final. After its performance in the trial of Pierre Laval, the government of France continued its policy of concealment, even though the truth could no longer determine the outcome of the trial. Slowly, by persistence, courage, and loyalty, history's claims to truth were established. This book presents the defense that might have been presented and then relates the final judgment, its grisly execution only eleven days after the trial opened, and its aftermath.

The Trial of James Watson

Author : James Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Trial of James Watson written by James Watson and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Spa Fields Riots was public disorder arising out of mass meetings at Spa Fields, Islington, England on 15 November and 2 December 1816. Revolutionary Spenceans, who opposed the British government, had planned to encourage rioting and then seize control of the government by taking the Tower of London and the Bank of England. Arthur Thistlewood and three other Spencean leaders were arrested and charged with high treason as a result of the riot; James Watson was on trial during June 1817 with Messrs Wetherell and Copley as their defence counsel. Watson was acquitted and the other three were released without trial."--Wikipedia.

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors

Author : Thomas Bayly Howell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors written by Thomas Bayly Howell and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Law, laity and solidarities

Author : Pauline Stafford
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526148285
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Law, laity and solidarities written by Pauline Stafford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this collection by leading medieval historians is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people. The contributors explore lay attitudes as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles and collective activities. Highlights the centrality of kinship, whilst stressing its limitations as an all purpose social bond. Ranges chronologically and geographically from the seventh century to the eve of the Reformation, from Western Britain to papal and urban Italy, from Carolingian dynastic politics to the decline of medieval pilgrimage in the sixteenth century, and from the courts of twelfth-century France to the fifteenth-century wards of London.

The Treason Trials, 1794

Author : Alan Wharam
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Treason Trials, 1794 written by Alan Wharam and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade of the 18th century Britain, like every other country in the western world, was fascinated and appalled by the French Revolution and its aftermath. The great fear was of the spread of the contagion of revolution. Conspiracies were uncovered, or invented, by the government of the day: links between Irish, Scots and English freethinkers, rebels and revolutionaries were uncovered or imagined. The greatest apparent conspiracy against the King was investigated and tried in 1794.

Treason in the Blood

Author : Anthony Cave Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Treason in the Blood written by Anthony Cave Brown and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Philby has been called "one of the most remarkable double-agents to have been exposed in our time". Harry St. John Bridger Philby, Kim Philby's father and mentor, was one of the most intriguing intellectuals and adventurers of our time, a manipulator who played a key role in establishing the modern Middle East. In this dual biography, Anthony Cave Brown, tells the extraordinary story of two men whose lives were directly opposed to the establishment into which they were born and for which they were bred. St. John, the brilliant Arabist, became a Moslem and political adviser to King Ibn Saud. He was the middleman in the U.S. acquisition of the Saudi oil concession, called by the State Department "the greatest commercial prize in the history of the planet". And as St. John turned to Mecca, Kim turned to the Kremlin, serving as a secret agent against the Anglo-American intelligence services for fifty-three years.