Called to justice : the life of a federal trial judge /

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Author / Creator:Urbom, Warren K.
Imprint:Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 360 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Law in the American West
Law in the American West.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157954
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ISBN:9780803244573
0803244576
9780803239838
0803239831
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Urbom, Warren K. Called to justice. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012 9780803239838
Standard no.:9786613863225