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From Death Row to freedom : the struggle for racial justice in the Pitts-Lee case
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This text offers an insider's account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in ...
This text offers an insider's account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death.
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- Creator
- Phillip A. Hubbart
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2024
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (420 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780813072838, 0813072832, 9780813067865, 0813067863, 9780813070483, 0813070481, 0813080134, 0813069726
- OCLC
- on1380466370, on1356894478, on1411754435
- Previously issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I. The Murder Convictions (1963-1964) -- Introduction: The End of the Ordeal -- Curtis Adams and the Port St. Joe/Ft. Lauderdale Murders -- The Port St. Joe Interrogations -- The Panama City Interrogations -- The Army CID Investigation -- A Court Hearing -- Pitts and Lee Confess -- The Initial Trial Court Proceedings -- The Death Sentence -- The Appeal -- Part II. The Newly Discovered Evidence (1965-1971) -- Pitts and Lee Find a New Lawyer: The State's Case Begins to Unravel -- The Broward County Sheriff's Office Investigates: Curtis Adams Confesses -- The Struggle to Re-Open the Case -- The Dueling Newspapers in Miami and Panama City -- The Defense Preparation -- The Port St. Joe Hearing Begins -- The Port St. Joe Hearing Continues -- The Defense Rests -- The Port St. Joe Hearing Concludes -- The Ruling and the Appeal -- Part III. The New Trial and Aftermath (1971-1975) -- The Pre-Trial Proceedings: Phase I -- The Pre-Trial Proceedings: Phase II -- The Selection of the Jury: Phase I -- The Selection of the Jury: Phase II -- The State's Case -- The Defense Case -- The Final Arguments -- The Trial Concludes -- The Appeal -- Freedom
Subjects
- Judicial error -- Florida -- Case studies.
- Trials (Murder) -- Florida.
- False imprisonment -- Florida -- Case studies.
- Capital punishment -- Florida -- Case studies.
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Florida.
- Pitts, Freddie Lee -- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Lee, Wilbert -- Trials, litigation, etc.