My demons were real : constitutional lawyer Joseph Calamia's journey /

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Main Author: Ybarra, Bob (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houston, Tex. : Arte Publico Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Digitalia Hispánica
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Table of Contents:
  • The quest begins
  • A whirlwind of idealism: Young Joe
  • Calm before the storm: the judiciary in the 1950s
  • A quick start: corruption and cavalier attitudes
  • Setting precedents: the early cases
  • The early cases: seemingly innocuous, but ...
  • Drug laws: tough but with reservations
  • Constitutionality: the Fourteenth Amendment and the states
  • Light in a dark period
  • The Commies are coming: mine-smelter and Hollywood
  • First Commie trial: Salt of the Earth
  • The first Jencks's case: quick and simple?
  • Matusow and Jencks: false witness, contempt and discovery
  • Aftermath: Jencks, Mine-Mill and no calamity in Joe
  • Tenacity Calamia style
  • The 1960s: Judge Thomason passes the torch
  • Clanahan: even "La Migra" deserves a fair trial
  • Nagell: discovery, insanity, clear and convincing evidence
  • Federal judges: attitudes and the law of contempt
  • Fernandez and the Fifth: no silver platter for the federal taxman
  • Muniz and Habeas Corpus: no Mexican Americans in a grand jury
  • Change and reflection
  • 1970s and beyond: turmoil and change
  • Pate and filing fees: now Chuy de la O can run for mayor
  • Judge v. Judge: investigative grand juries
  • Jones: crimes of sudden passion and reflection.