United States Reports. Vol. 481 (Oct. Term 1987).
[United States Supreme Court]. Wagner, Frank D. (Reporter). United States Reports [Official Edition]. Volume 481. Cases Adjudged in The Supreme Court at October Term, 1986. April 6 through May 29, 1987. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990. liv, 1328 pp. Octavo. Publisher's tan buckram with upper red and lower black gilt letttered spine labels. Ex-library copy with property stamps, " Hon. Donald J. Lee," on pages edges and inside front and rear endpapers, otherwise a very good, clean copy. $125. * This volume contains several of the most consequential legal precedents issued during the late twentieth century. Foremost among these is the deeply controversial decision in McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), where a 5-4 majority ruled that statistical evidence of systemic racial bias in capital sentencing was insufficient to overturn an individual death sentence under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. It remains a foundational text for debates surrounding systemic racism in the American judicial system. Additionally, this volume includes United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987), a landmark constitutional ruling that upheld the Bail Reform Act of 1984. The decision established that the government may detain individuals without bail prior to trial if they pose a documented danger to the community, reshaping federal criminal justice procedures. From the library of the Honorable Donald J. Lee (1927-2011), who served as a distinguished judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, having been appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1989.
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