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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBerryhill, Michael
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Trials of Eroy Brown :
_bThe Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System /
_cMichael Berryhill.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (247 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aJack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPrologue: Victorville, 2010 --
_t1. A Fishing Trip to Ellis Prison --
_t2. Death at Turkey Creek --
_t3. Estelle’s Bitterness --
_t4. A Confusing Scene --
_t5. The Aura of Ellis --
_t6. The Witch and the Writ Writers --
_t7. The Question of the Gun --
_t8. The Shadow of Ruiz --
_t9. Weasel --
_t10. The Dangers of Testifying --
_t11. Old Thing --
_t12. Eroy as Aggressor --
_t13. The Defense Is Self-Defense --
_t14. Eroy’s Story --
_t15. The Perfect Defendant --
_t16. The TDC on Trial --
_t17. The Arc of the Moral Universe --
_t18. The Shoes of Eroy Brown --
_t19. Politics and Prisons --
_t20. The State Tries Again --
_t21. A Cat Batters a Mouse --
_t22. Twenty-Three Jurors --
_t23. Still Not Protected --
_t24. Paying for Justice --
_t25. The End of an Era --
_t26. Free at Last --
_t27. Aftermath --
_tNotes --
_tA Note on the Sources --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of duty. The warden was drowned face down in a ditch. The farm manager was shot once in the head with the warden's gun. The man who admitted to killing them, a burglar and robber named Eroy Brown, surrendered meekly, claiming self-defense. In any other era of Texas prison history, Brown's fate would have seemed certain: execution. But in 1980, federal judge William Wayne Justice had issued a sweeping civil rights ruling in which he found that prison officials had systematically and often brutally violated the rights of Texas inmates. In the light of that landmark prison civil rights case, Ruiz v. Estelle, Brown had a chance of being believed. The Trials of Eroy Brown, the first book devoted to Brown's astonishing defense, is based on trial documents, exhibits, and journalistic accounts of Brown's three trials, which ended in his acquittal. Michael Berryhill presents Brown's story in his own words, set against the backdrop of the chilling plantation mentality of Texas prisons. Brown's attorneys—Craig Washington, Bill Habern, and Tim Sloan—undertook heroic strategies to defend him, even when the state refused to pay their fees. The Trials of Eroy Brown tells a landmark story of prison civil rights and the collapse of Jim Crow justice in Texas.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aPrison administration
_xCorrupt practices
_zTexas
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aPrison homicide
_zTexas
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aTrials (Murder)
_zTexas.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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