"Criminal Justice in Cleveland"
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By: Felix Frankfurter and Roscoe Pound
Date: 1922
Source: Frankfurter, Felix, and Roscoe Pound. "Criminal Justice In Cleveland." Excerpt reprinted in Hall, Kermit L., William M. Wiecek, and Paul Finkelman. American Legal History: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 443–445.
About the Authors: Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), before his Supreme Court appointment in 1939, was a Harvard law professor who advised President Franklin Roosevelt (served 1933–1945). His strong nationalism appears in many of the opinions he wrote while on the bench.
Roscoe Pound (1870–1964) was a professor at Harvard from 1910 to 1936 and dean of their Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a progressive in the 1910s and 1920s.
Introduction
The annals of early America are rife with accounts of crimes and punishments. Crime was a...
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