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6
People
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Organizations
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Events
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Relationships
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Document Information
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Memoir draft / manuscript page
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2.64 MB
Summary
This document appears to be a page (p. 160) from a manuscript or memoir, dated April 2, 2012, in the header. It narrates the author's time as a law clerk (likely Alan Dershowitz) for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg in the 1960s. The text details the legal research into the constitutionality of the death penalty, discussions with Justice Goldberg about the political risks of opposing it, and a specific meeting with Justice Brennan to present arguments based on the 'cruel and unusual punishment' clause and racial disparities in execution statistics. The document bears a House Oversight Bates stamp.
People (6)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Narrator | Law Clerk / Author |
Likely Alan Dershowitz (based on historical context of clerking for Goldberg and Yale Law connection); researching ca...
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| Justice Goldberg | Supreme Court Justice |
Arthur Goldberg; the narrator's boss who is questioning the constitutionality of the death penalty.
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| Earl Warren | Chief Justice |
Quoted from Trop v. Dulles regarding the death penalty.
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| Justice Brennan | Supreme Court Justice |
William Brennan; the narrator is sent to gauge his interest in joining Goldberg's view on the death penalty.
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| Bill Brennan | Student |
Justice Brennan's son; narrator's classmate and moot-court partner at Yale Law School.
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| David Bazelon | Judge |
Friend of Justice Brennan; had lunch with the narrator previously.
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Yale Law School |
Where the narrator and Bill Brennan were classmates.
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| Supreme Court of the United States |
Implied setting of the work and justices mentioned.
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| House Oversight Committee |
indicated by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'
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Timeline (2 events)
Historical (1960s)
Meeting to discuss the constitutionality of the death penalty
Washington D.C. (implied)
Locations (1)
| Location | Context |
|---|---|
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General jurisdiction mentioned in case citations and statistics.
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Relationships (3)
I duly reported this to Justice Goldberg... Justice Goldberg asked me to talk to Justice Brennan
Bill, was my classmate and moot-court partner at Yale Law School
his friend Judge David Bazelon
Key Quotes (4)
"I set to work on the capital punishment project but found no suggestion in the case law that any court had ever considered the death penalty to be of questionable constitutionality."Source
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"Justice Goldberg asked me to talk to Justice Brennan and see what his views were."Source
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Quote #2
"Justice Goldberg, the Court’s rookie, did not want to 'be out there alone,' against the chief justice and the rest of the Court."Source
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Quote #3
"between 1937 and 1951, 233 Blacks were executed for rape in the United States, while only 26 whites were executed for that crime"Source
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