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Author Seligman, Scott D

Title The third degree : the triple murder that shook Washington and changed American criminal justice
Published Lincoln [Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2018

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Contents Men in a tub -- An unwelcome guest -- Murder at the mission -- Incommunicado -- Interrogation -- Confession -- Indictment and trial -- Appeal -- The third degree -- The Supreme court -- Retrial -- Freedom -- The Wickersham report -- The road to Miranda
Summary "'The Third Degree' is the true story of a young man's abuse by the Washington police and an arduous, seven-year journey through the legal system that drew in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis, and J. Edgar Hoover. The ordeal culminated in a sweeping Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Louis Brandeis that set the stage for the Miranda warning many years later. Scott D. Seligman argues that the importance of the case hinges not on the defendant's guilt or innocence but on the imperative that a system that presumes one is innocent until proven guilty provides protections against coerced confessions."--Jacket
Analysis Ziang Sung Wan v. United States, 266 U.S. 1 (1924)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Wan, Ziang Sung -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Wan, Ziang Sun -- Trials, litigation, etc
Subject Trials (Murder) -- United States
Diplomats -- China
Diplomats -- Crimes against -- United States
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
Diplomats
Trials (Murder)
China
United States
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781640120600
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9781640120624
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