Justice in Plain Sight
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Justice in Plain Sight

How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms

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Justice in Plain Sight

How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms

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2024 American Legacy Book Awards Winner Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on business lawyerJim Ward, whom Press-Enterprise editor Tim Hays had come to know and trust, the newspaper took two cases to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1980s. Hays was convinced that the public—including the press—needed to have these rights and needed to bear witness to justice because healing in the aftermath of a horrible crime could not occur without community catharsis.The newspaper won both cases and established First Amendment rights that significantly broadened public access to the judicial system, including the right for the public to witness jury selection and preliminary hearings. Justice in Plain Sight is a unique story that, for the first time, details two improbable journeys to the Supreme Court in which the stakes were as high as they could possibly be (and still are): the public's trust in its own government.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781496211989
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Legal History
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Prologue
  8. 1. “They Can’t Do That, Can They?”
  9. 2. “You’ll Never See Your Daughter Again”
  10. 3. Slamming the Door
  11. 4. The “Thrill-Killer” Nurse
  12. 5. The Hays-Cherniss Newspaper
  13. 6. “They Won’t Laugh at You Now”
  14. 7. “Mr. Everything”
  15. 8. The Battleground
  16. 9. Building the Case
  17. 10. The Diaz Case Advances
  18. 11. Mr. Ward Goes to Washington
  19. 12. The Audience of Nine
  20. 13. “I Will Be Back”
  21. 14. “The Presumption of Openness”
  22. 15. A Halt to the “Ominous Progression”?
  23. 16. Smacked Down Again
  24. 17. “Expanding the Right of Access”
  25. 18. Needle in a Haystack
  26. 19. “The Soil of Openness”
  27. 20. “Hands over His Face”
  28. 21. “Safeguard against the Corrupt and Eccentric”
  29. Epilogue
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. Notes
  32. Bibliography
  33. Index
  34. About Dan Bernstein
  35. Illustrations