| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1940 - 828 pages
...exalted power of some governments to punish manufactured crime dictatorially is the handmaid of tyranny. Under our constitutional system, courts stand against...because they are non-conforming victims of prejudice and public .excitement. Due process of law, preserved for all by our Constitution, commands that no... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1940 - 1096 pages
...exalted power of some governments to punish manufactured crime dictatorially is the handmaid of tyranny. Under our constitutional system, courts stand against...because they are non-conforming victims of prejudice and public excitement. j Due process of law, preserved for all by our Constitution, commands that no... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - 1940 - 232 pages
...of the. United States as read by Justice Hugo L.' Black, and which were quoted in the newspapers : Under our constitutional system, courts stand against any winds that blow, as lavens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Habeas corpus - 1955 - 144 pages
...our form of democracy. "Under our constitutional system," Mr. Justice Black once wrote, "courts must stand against any winds that blow as havens of refuge...are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nouconform. ing victims of prejudice and public excitement."3 1 Now 28 U. 8. C., sec. 2241-2255. !... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1959 - 306 pages
...our form of democracy. "Under our constitutional system," Mr. Justice Black once wrote, "courts must stand against any winds that blow as havens of refuge...because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice and public excitement." 3 i Now 28 USC, sec. 2241-2255. In several opinions,- dealing with habeas corpus... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Government publications - 1972 - 92 pages
...News 107 (1965). House, 1969), 2342. 6. Frank, "Hugo L. Black", in Justices of the Supreme Court, L. they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice and public excitement * * ".7 And he went on to declare that "* * * No higher duty, no more solemn... | |
| Gerald T. Dunne - Biography & Autobiography - 1977 - 514 pages
...four black tenant farmers accused of murder: "Under our constitutional system, courts stand against winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who...because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice and public excitement."7 Chambers was a difficult opinion for Black. The case involved going against... | |
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