The Trials of Eroy Brown : : The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Berryhill, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2011
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (247 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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