The Trials of Eroy Brown : : The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System / / Michael Berryhill.
In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of duty. The warden was drowned face down in a ditch....
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Berryhill, Michael, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Trials of Eroy Brown : The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System / Michael Berryhill. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2011 1 online resource (247 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Victorville, 2010 -- 1. A Fishing Trip to Ellis Prison -- 2. Death at Turkey Creek -- 3. Estelle’s Bitterness -- 4. A Confusing Scene -- 5. The Aura of Ellis -- 6. The Witch and the Writ Writers -- 7. The Question of the Gun -- 8. The Shadow of Ruiz -- 9. Weasel -- 10. The Dangers of Testifying -- 11. Old Thing -- 12. Eroy as Aggressor -- 13. The Defense Is Self-Defense -- 14. Eroy’s Story -- 15. The Perfect Defendant -- 16. The TDC on Trial -- 17. The Arc of the Moral Universe -- 18. The Shoes of Eroy Brown -- 19. Politics and Prisons -- 20. The State Tries Again -- 21. A Cat Batters a Mouse -- 22. Twenty-Three Jurors -- 23. Still Not Protected -- 24. Paying for Justice -- 25. The End of an Era -- 26. Free at Last -- 27. Aftermath -- Notes -- A Note on the Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of duty. The warden was drowned face down in a ditch. The farm manager was shot once in the head with the warden's gun. The man who admitted to killing them, a burglar and robber named Eroy Brown, surrendered meekly, claiming self-defense. In any other era of Texas prison history, Brown's fate would have seemed certain: execution. But in 1980, federal judge William Wayne Justice had issued a sweeping civil rights ruling in which he found that prison officials had systematically and often brutally violated the rights of Texas inmates. In the light of that landmark prison civil rights case, Ruiz v. Estelle, Brown had a chance of being believed. The Trials of Eroy Brown, the first book devoted to Brown's astonishing defense, is based on trial documents, exhibits, and journalistic accounts of Brown's three trials, which ended in his acquittal. Michael Berryhill presents Brown's story in his own words, set against the backdrop of the chilling plantation mentality of Texas prisons. Brown's attorneys—Craig Washington, Bill Habern, and Tim Sloan—undertook heroic strategies to defend him, even when the state refused to pay their fees. The Trials of Eroy Brown tells a landmark story of prison civil rights and the collapse of Jim Crow justice in Texas. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Prison administration Corrupt practices Texas Case studies. Prison homicide Texas Case studies. Trials (Murder) Texas. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/726949 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292738768 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292738768/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Victorville, 2010 -- 1. A Fishing Trip to Ellis Prison -- 2. Death at Turkey Creek -- 3. Estelle’s Bitterness -- 4. A Confusing Scene -- 5. The Aura of Ellis -- 6. The Witch and the Writ Writers -- 7. The Question of the Gun -- 8. The Shadow of Ruiz -- 9. Weasel -- 10. The Dangers of Testifying -- 11. Old Thing -- 12. Eroy as Aggressor -- 13. The Defense Is Self-Defense -- 14. Eroy’s Story -- 15. The Perfect Defendant -- 16. The TDC on Trial -- 17. The Arc of the Moral Universe -- 18. The Shoes of Eroy Brown -- 19. Politics and Prisons -- 20. The State Tries Again -- 21. A Cat Batters a Mouse -- 22. Twenty-Three Jurors -- 23. Still Not Protected -- 24. Paying for Justice -- 25. The End of an Era -- 26. Free at Last -- 27. Aftermath -- Notes -- A Note on the Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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