Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association V. Stuart

by Mark R. Scherer

On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. Massive media attention to the grisly story soon spawned a historic collision between two of the most cherished American constitutional protections--the First Amendment's guarantee of a free press and the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a criminal defendant's right to a fair trial before an impartial jury. Rights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726266
• ISBN13: 9780896726260
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"