LEADER 03445oam 22005174a 450 001 9910964724203321 005 20180330030003.0 010 $a1-64012-062-9 010 $a1-64012-060-2 035 $a(CKB)4340000000261739 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5326725 035 $a(OCoLC)1029352908 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65915 035 $a(BIP)61913445 035 $a(BIP)61137483 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000261739 100 $a20171024d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Third Degree$eThe Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice 210 1$aLincoln, Nebraska :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2018. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2018 210 4$d©2018. 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 311 08$a1-61234-994-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMen in a tub -- An unwelcome guest -- Murder at the mission -- Incommunicado -- Interrogation -- Confession -- Indictment and trial -- Appeal -- The third degree -- The Supreme court -- Retrial -- Freedom -- The Wickersham report -- The road to Miranda. 330 $a2019 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, The Third Degree  is the true story of a young man's abuse by the Washington police and an arduous, seven-year journey through the legal system that drew in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis, and J. Edgar Hoover. The ordeal culminated in a sweeping Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Louis Brandeis that set the stage for the Miranda warning many years later. Scott D. Seligman argues that the importance of the case hinges not on the defendant's guilt or innocence but on the imperative that a system that presumes one is innocent until proven guilty provides protections against coerced confessions. Today, when the treatment of suspects between arrest and trial remains controversial, when bias against immigrants and minorities in law enforcement continues to deny them their rights, and when protecting individuals from compulsory self-incrimination is still an uphill battle, this century-old legal spellbinder is a cautionary tale that reminds us how we got where we are today and makes us wonder how far we have yet to go. 606 $aDiplomats$zCrimes against$zUnited States 606 $aDiplomats$zChina 606 $aTrials (Murder)$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDiplomats 615 0$aDiplomats 615 0$aTrials (Murder) 676 $a345.73/062 700 $aSeligman$b Scott D$01820510 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910964724203321 996 $aThe Third Degree$94382755 997 $aUNINA