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Justice in Plain Sight - How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms (Paperback)
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Justice in Plain Sight - How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms (Paperback)
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Loot Price R457
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Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in
Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers
about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges
slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it
became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on
business lawyer Jim Ward, whom Press-Enterprise editor Tim Hays had
come to know and trust, the newspaper took two cases to the U.S.
Supreme Court in the 1980s. Hays was convinced that the
public-including the press-needed to have these rights and needed
to bear witness to justice because healing in the aftermath of a
horrible crime could not occur without community catharsis. The
newspaper won both cases and established First Amendment rights
that significantly broadened public access to the judicial system,
including the right for the public to witness jury selection and
preliminary hearings. Justice in Plain Sight is a unique story
that, for the first time, details two improbable journeys to the
Supreme Court in which the stakes were as high as they could
possibly be (and still are): the public's trust in its own
government.
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