“The Defendant Has Seemed to Live a Charmed Life”: Hopt v. Utah: Territorial Justice, The Supreme Court of the United States, and Late Nineteenth-Century Death Penalty Jurisprudence.
Details the 1887 United State Supreme Court case involving murderer Fred Hopt. Major claims made by Hopt which resulted in the reversal of the accused's conviction three times; Reasons that made the case a historical landmark for death penalty litigation.
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