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Author Morris, Irving, 1925-2016.

Title The rape case : a young lawyer's struggle for justice in the 1950s / Irving Morris
Published Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
Cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore.
Contents For want of a match -- The preliminary hearing -- The trial -- The families suffer -- Searching for a lawyer -- Serendipity -- My colleagues and my clients -- Picking a judge -- My failure to research leads to the first defeat -- The importance of civil discovery (the second defeat) -- The buried report surfaces and the depositions begin -- The offer I should have refused -- Winning the newspaper decision -- Young's name and my capacity for work -- The original talk show host -- My short-lived public service -- Something more needs to be said (the third defeat) -- The optimistic brief -- Unexpected help and surprising praise -- Unfairness affirmed (the fourth defeat) -- The double standard -- The naysayer -- Chancery joins the rest (the fifth defeat) -- The first denial of certiorari (the sixth defeat) leads to the District Court -- Ships in the night -- Crossing the line of tolerable imperfection (the first victory) -- The planted note -- Affirming the obvious (the second victory) -- The hair tonic bond -- The opposition continues, spite is thwarted, and the rape case ends (the third, fourth, and final victories) -- The flawed editorial -- Praise -- Suing for damages -- Vindicated! -- Bud Curran's death
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-431) and index
Subject Curran, Francis J. -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Maguire, Francis J. -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Jones, Ira F. -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Morris, Irving, 1925-2016.
Trials (Rape) -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
Defense (Criminal procedure) -- Delaware -- Wilmington.
SUBJECT Delaware http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79041720 -- Trials, litigation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002033
LC no. 2010039362
ISBN 9781936249367 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1936249367 (hbk. : alk. paper)