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