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John Paul Stevens - Defender of Rights in Criminal Justice (Hardcover)
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John Paul Stevens - Defender of Rights in Criminal Justice (Hardcover)
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This book examines the judicial opinions and criminal justice
policy impact of Justice John Paul Stevens, the U.S. Supreme
Court's most prolific opinion author during his 35-year career on
the nation's highest court. Although Justice Stevens, a Republican
appointee of President Gerald Ford, had a professional reputation
as a corporate antitrust law attorney, he immediately asserted
himself as the Court's foremost advocate of prisoners' rights and
Miranda rights when he arrived at the Court in 1975. In examining
Justice Stevens's opinions on these topics as well as others,
including capital punishment and right to counsel, the chapters of
the book connect his prior experiences with the development of his
views on rights in criminal justice. In particular, the book
examines his relevant experiences as a law clerk to Justice Wiley
Rutledge in the Supreme Court's 1947 term, a volunteer attorney
handling criminal cases in Illinois, and a judge on the U.S. court
of appeals to explore how these experiences shaped his
understanding of the importance of rights in criminal justice. For
many issues, such as those affecting imprisoned offenders, Justice
Stevens was a strong defender of rights throughout his career. For
other issues, such as capital punishment, there is evidence that he
became increasingly protective of rights over the course of his
Supreme Court career. The book also examines how Justice Stevens
became increasingly important as a leading dissenter against the
diminution of rights in criminal justice as the Supreme Court's
composition became increasingly conservative in the 1980s and
thereafter. Because of the nature and complexity of Justice
Stevens's numerous and varied opinions over the course of his
lengthy career, scholars find it difficult to characterize his
judicial philosophy and impact with simple labels. Yet in the realm
of criminal justice, close examination of his work reveals that he
earned a reputation and an enduring legacy as an exceptionally
important defender of constitutional rights.
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