The rape case
Subtitle: a young lawyer's struggle for justice in the 1950s
By: Irving Morris
Series: Cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
Publisher: University of Delware Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781936249367
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: For want of a match; title: The preliminary hearing; title: The trial; title: The families suffer; title: Searcing for a lawyer; title: Serendipity; title: My colleagues and my clients; title: Picking a judge; title: My failure to research leads to the first defeat; title: The importance of civil discovery (the second defeat); title: The buried report surfaces and the depositions begin; title: The offer I should have refused; title: Winning the newspaper decision; title: Young's name and my capacity for work; title: The original talk show host; title: My short-lived public service; title: Something more needs to be said (the third defeat); title: The optimistic brief; title: Unexpected help and surprising praise; title: Unfairness affirmed (the fourth defeat); title: The double standard; title: The naysayer; title: Chancery joins the rest (the fifth defeat); title: The first denial of certiorari (the sixth defeat) leads to the District Court; title: Ships in the night; title: Crossing the line of tolerable imperfection (the first victory); title: The planted note; title: Affirming the obvious (the second victory); title: The hair tonic bond; title: The opposition continues, spite is thwarted, and the rape case ends (the third, fourth, and final victories); title: The flawed editorial; title: Praise; title: Suing for damages; title: Vindicated!; title: Bud Curran's death.