The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice by Seligman, Scott D.
The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice by Seligman, Scott D.

The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

2019 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner (Gold) in U.S. History If you've ever seen an episode of...
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Author: Scott D. Seligman
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The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice by Seligman, Scott D.

The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

$67.83
The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice by Seligman, Scott D.

The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

$67.83
Author: Scott D. Seligman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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2019 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner (Gold) in U.S. History

If you've ever seen an episode of Law and Order, you can probably recite your Miranda rights by heart. But you likely don't know that these rights had their roots in the case of a young Chinese man accused of murdering three diplomats in Washington DC in 1919. A frantic search for clues and dogged interrogations by gumshoes erupted in sensational news and editorial coverage and intensified international pressure on the police to crack the case.

Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and part landmark legal case, 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.

Today, when the treatment of suspects between arrest and trial remains controversial, when bias against immigrants and minorities in law enforcement continues to deny them their rights, and when protecting individuals from compulsory self-incrimination is still an uphill battle, this century-old legal spellbinder is a cautionary tale that reminds us how we got where we are today and makes us wonder how far we have yet to go.
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Author: Scott D. Seligman
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.74w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9781612349947


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Foreword 04/26/2018

About the Author
Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the author of several books, including Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown and The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, and the China Business Review, among other publications. He has worked as a legislative assistant to a member of the U.S. Congress, lobbied the Chinese government on behalf of American business, and managed a multinational public relations agency in China.
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