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From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case

Phillip A. Hubbart

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Description:An insider's account of a wrongfulconviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights eraThisbook is an insider's account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of twowhite gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentencedto death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legalperspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case andobstructed justice.Hubbartdiscusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged "eye witness" throughprolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejectedlater evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well-known to the PortSt. Joe police. The book followsthe case's tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants'eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a thoroughchronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of policeduring the civil rights era of the1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of Americanhistory that must be remembered, alongwith other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today.Publicationof this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the AmericanRescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case. To get started finding From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An insider's account of a wrongfulconviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights eraThisbook is an insider's account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of twowhite gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentencedto death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legalperspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case andobstructed justice.Hubbartdiscusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged "eye witness" throughprolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejectedlater evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well-known to the PortSt. Joe police. The book followsthe case's tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants'eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a thoroughchronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of policeduring the civil rights era of the1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of Americanhistory that must be remembered, alongwith other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today.Publicationof this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the AmericanRescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case. To get started finding From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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