Called to justice : the life of a federal trial judge / Warren K. Urbom ; foreword by William Jay Riley.
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- 9780803244573
- 0803244576
- 347.73/2234092 23
- KF373.U73 A3 2012eb
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Rocky Road to a Judgeship -- 2. Growing Up -- 3. Looking for Answers and Finding Them -- 4. Practicing Law -- 5. Church and Family -- 6. Federal Trial Judge Gives Answers -- 7. Wounded Knee and the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 -- 8. Progressive Farmers Association Trial -- 9. Back to Normal -- 10. Judging throughout the Nation.
Early in his judicial career, U.S. District Judge Warren K. Urbom was assigned a yearlong string of criminal trials arising from a seventy-one-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. In Called to Justice Urbom provides the first behind-the-scenes look at what quickly became one of the most significant series of federal trials of the twentieth century. Yet Wounded Knee was only one set of monumental cases Urbom presided over during his years on the bench, a set that in turn forms but one chapter in a remarkable.
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