The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice
Scott D. Seligman, "The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice"
English | ISBN: 1612349943 | 2018 | 224 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
English | ISBN: 1612349943 | 2018 | 224 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
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,
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