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Introduction: The Incident at Lathrop Station
Author(s) -
Kens Paul
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5818.2005.00101.x
Subject(s) - memoir , supreme court , law , history , economic justice , reprint , principal (computer security) , tragedy (event) , criminology , sociology , political science , social science , physics , astronomy , computer science , operating system
Last year the Journal of Supreme Court History published the first part of Justice Stephen J. Field's memoir, Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California , with a promise to reprint the second half at a later time. 1 This is the second installment. It is not technically part of the memoir at all. Rather, it is the story of one particular incident: the events that led to the shooting and death of Field's former colleague on the Supreme Court of California, David S. Terry. As you will soon see, the story involves powerful personalities, incredible wealth, sex, violence, and greed. These themes are not unusual in legal history. What is unusual in the story that follows, however, is that judges are the principal players.