| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 217 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-178) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The conspiracies -- The Hunter Commission -- The lawyers -- The conduct of the trial -- The case against Mary Surratt -- The case against Samuel Mudd -- An unconstitutional, unfair trial. |
| Summary |
Avenging Lincoln's Death: The Trial of John Wilkes Booth's Accomplices dissects the trial of eight alleged accomplices of John Wilkes Booth, showing that the trial was unconstitutional because Congress never authorized trial by military commission and President Johnson exceeded his authority by appointing a military commission when the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863 directed him to turn over the accomplices to civilian authorities. The trial was also flawed by admission of irrelevant evidence of Confederate atrocities and perjured testimony. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial, Washington, D.C., 1865.
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Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial (Washington, D.C. : 1865) |
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1865 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Avenging Lincoln's death. Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2016] 9781611478273 (DLC) 2015029166 |
| ISBN |
9781611478280 (ebook) |
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1611478286 |
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9781611478273 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1611478278 |
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