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05396aam a2200577 i 4500 001 69101F429E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231219010058 008 221020t20232023flua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022050111 020 $a 0813080134 020 $a 9780813080130 020 $a 0813069726 020 $a 9780813069722 035 $a (OCoLC)1347782293 040 $a FUG/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d WLL $d SLU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-fl 050 00 $a KF224.P53 $b H83 2023 084 $a SOC001000 $a SOC001000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Hubbart, Phillip A., $e author. 245 10 $a From death row to freedom : $b the struggle for racial justice in the Pitts-Lee case / $c Phillip A. Hubbart. 246 30 $a Struggle for racial justice in the Pitts-Lee case 264 1 $a Gainesville : $b University Press of Florida, $c [2023] 300 $a xiv, 404 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part I. The murder convictions (1963-1964) -- Introduction : the end of the ordeal -- Curtis Adams and the Port St. Joe/Ft. Lauderdale murders -- The Port St. Joe interrogations -- The Panama City interrogations -- The Army CID investigation -- A court hearing -- Pitts and Lee confess -- The initial trial court proceedings -- The death sentence -- The appeal -- Part II. The newly discovered evidence (1965-1971) -- Pitts and Lee get a new lawyer and the state's case begins to collapse -- Curtis Adams confesses -- The struggle to reopen the case -- Dueling newspapers in Miami and Panama City -- The defense prepares -- The Port St. Joe hearing begins -- The Port St. Joe hearing continues -- The defense rests -- The Port St. Joe hearing concludes -- The ruling and the appeal -- Part III. The new trial and its aftermath (1971-1975) -- Phase I of the pretrial proceedings -- Phase II of the pretrial proceedings -- Phase I of jury selection -- Phase II of jury selection -- The state's case -- The defense case -- The final arguments -- The trial concludes -- The appeal -- Freedom. 520 $a "This book is an insider's account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of murder and sentenced to death during the civil rights era of the 1960s"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "An insider's account of a wrongful conviction and the fight to overturn it during the civil rights era This book is an insider's account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death. Phillip Hubbart, a defense lawyer for Pitts and Lee for more than 10 years, examines the crime, the trial, and the appeals with both a keen legal perspective and an awareness of the endemic racism that pervaded the case and obstructed justice. Hubbart discusses how the case against Pitts and Lee was based entirely on confessions obtained from the defendants and an alleged "eye witness" through prolonged, violent interrogations and how local authorities repeatedly rejected later evidence pointing to the real killer, a white man well-known to the Port St. Joe police. The book follows the case's tortuous route through the Florida courts to the defendants' eventual exoneration in 1975 by the Florida governor and cabinet. From Death Row to Freedom is a thorough chronicle of deep prejudice in the courts and brutality at the hands of police during the civil rights era of the 1960s. Hubbart argues that the Pitts-Lee case is a piece of American history that must be remembered, along with other similar incidents, in order for the country to make any progress toward racial reconciliation today. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Pitts, Freddie Lee $x Trials, litigation, etc. 600 10 $a Lee, Wilbert $x Trials, litigation, etc. 650 0 $a Judicial error $z Florida $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Trials (Murder) $z Florida. 650 0 $a False imprisonment $z Florida $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Capital punishment $z Florida $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Criminal justice, Administration of $z Florida. 650 7 $a HISTORY / African American & Black. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Capital punishment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00846392 650 7 $a Criminal justice, Administration of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883246 650 7 $a False imprisonment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00920104 650 7 $a Judicial error. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984666 650 7 $a Trials. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01156290 650 7 $a Trials (Murder) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01156368 651 7 $a Florida. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205150 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423765 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hubbart, Phillip A. $t From death row to freedom $b 1. $d Gainesvile : University Press of Florida, 2023 $z 9780813070483 $w (DLC) 2022050112 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219011550.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=69101F429E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search