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- Title
EXECUTIVE NULLIFICATION OF JUDICIAL DECREES.
- Authors
Orossley, F. B.
- Abstract
The article presents a debate on executive nullification of judicial decrees. A particularly brutal murder occurred in the bar of the Briggs House, Chicago, Illinois, March 22, 1911, in the shooting of one Vincent Altman. For some time the police seemed unable to apprehend the murderer, although at the time the crime was committed there were many people in the room. A shift was made in the governing police officer of the "loop" district, and soon thereafter one Maurice Enright was charged with the murder, arrested, brought to trial and on October 28, 1911, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. On December 16th, 1913, about two years after commitment, Enright was granted an unconditional pardon by Governor Edward F. Dunne. To the public at large there was no intimation given of the proposed action of the Governor or his Board of Pardons, except that some six months previous to the granting of the pardon there was a hearing in the matter before the Board, at which time an employers' organization in Chicago caused an attorney to appear before the Board and argue against Enright's release.
- Subjects
JURY nullification; CRIMINAL judgments; PARDON; MURDER; POLICE; LIFE sentences
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p646
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article