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• Title: Capital punishment lawyer Anthony Amsterdam / Brodie.
• Creator(s): Brodie, Howard, 1915-2010, artist
• Date Created/Published: [Place not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [1970]
• Medium: 1 drawing on white paper : inpriomia color and crayon ; sheet 45.7 x 61 cm.
• Summary: Drawing shows attorney Anthony Amsterdam presenting an argument before the United States Supreme Court against capital punishment.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-50995 (digital file from original drawing)
• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Howard Brodie (1915-2010) Rights and Restrictions Information,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/435_brod.html)
  
• Access Advisory: Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html)
• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1977:201.36 [item] [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Caption label from exhibit Drawing Justice: Death Penalty Argued Before the Supreme Court. Lawyer Anthony Amsterdam made a specialty of arguing death penalty cases before the Supreme Court, culminating in the 1972 case Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238. Amsterdam had worked through the NAACP's Legal and Educational Defense Fund, building up a case that death penalty sentences, while rarely carried out, were handed down to disproportionate numbers of African Americans. Instead of focusing on the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Amsterdam castigated the flawed procedure of jury selection and instruction. Here in one of his earlier cases, Maxwell v. Bishop, 398 U.S. 262 (1970), Amsterdam demonstrated one of the problems with jury selection. In this case the court found a death sentence cannot be carried out if the jury automatically excluded jurors who voiced general objections to the death penalty.
  • Title from item.
  • Signed and dated on lower right corner.
  • Exhibited: "Drawing Justice" at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., April - October 2017.
• Subjects:
  • Amsterdam, Anthony G.
  • Supreme Court justices--Washington (D.C.)--1970.
  • Judicial proceedings--Washington (D.C.)--1970.
  • Executions--Washington (D.C.)--1970.
• Format:
  • Courtroom sketches--Color--1970.
  • Drawings--Color--1970.
• Collections:
  • Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
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• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Howard Brodie (1915-2010) Rights and Restrictions Information," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/435_brod.html
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-50995 (digital file from original drawing)
• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1977:201.36 [item] [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing on white paper : inpriomia color and crayon ; sheet 45.7 x 61 cm.

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• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1977:201.36 [item] [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing on white paper : inpriomia color and crayon ; sheet 45.7 x 61 cm.
• Access Advisory: Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html

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