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	Chessman
		Caryl Chessman, dödsdömd amerikansk fånge, blev känd och omtalad i hela världen under 1950-talet och bidrog med sitt fall - tillsammans med några omdiskuterade hängningar i England - till en omfattande debatt om dödsstraffet.
		Chessman och hans advokater framhöll att det i samband härmed gjordes textändringar till åklagarsidans fördel.
		Chessman vädjade till Förenta Staternas högsta domstol och det blev beviljat uppskov till den 27 juni 1952.
	user.tninet.se /~jll006w/chessman.htm (1654 words)

	Caryl Chessman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chessman's case attracted world-wide attention, and as a result he became a cause célèbre for the movement to ban capital punishment.
		Acting as his own attorney, Chessman vigorously asserted his innocence from the outset, arguing throughout the trial and the appeals process that he was alternately the victim of mistaken identity, or a much larger conspiracy seeking to frame him for a crime he did not commit.
		Chessman's memoirs became bestsellers and ignited a world-wide movement to spare his life, while focusing attention on the politics of the death penalty in the United States at a time when most Western countries had already abandoned it, or were in the process of doing so.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caryl_Chessman (999 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Cell 2455, Death Row, by Caryl Chessman, Paperback, Reprint
		In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history.
		Caryl Whittier Chessman (May 27, 1921 –; May 2, 1960) was the man convicted for supposedly being the "Red Light Bandit," who was known for robbing women in their cars and sometimes forcing them to perform sex acts.
		Chessman was given the death penalty in 1948 and executed in 1960, but he claimed his innocence, and argued this convincingly, until the end.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=0786718153&itm=1 (478 words)

	The Death Penalty
		Chessman was indicted under California’s Little Lindbergh law, which allowed the death penalty in a case of kidnapping where the victim was harmed.
		Chessman, an egotist of the first order, decided to represent himself — thereby reconfirming the wisdom of the adage "the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client." He was convicted and sentenced to die.
		Chessman, in many ways, fell victim to Hollywood’s idealization of criminals and convicts, and he parroted those fantasies in his first book — which, while it may have won him fans among many, also solidified him as a hopeless sociopath in the minds of many others.
	crimemagazine.com /cp101.htm (4373 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		The original trial was conducted under a cloud of suspicion, and Chessman, famously, made the mistake of representing himself in the courtroom, his blunt manner alienating the judge and jury.
		A contemporaneous study of the Chessman case by Mark Davidson in The Californian concluded that "Chessman was not convicted of rape, because in both of the robber-attack offenses for which he was condemned, the victims persuaded the bandit not to pursue coitus.
		Chessman, in short, did everything in his power, whether intentionally or not, to ruffle the feathers of those in authority.
	www.gadflyonline.com /10-29-01/ftr-caryl-chessman.html (3555 words)

	In re Chessman (1955) 44 C2d 1
		Chessman filed a traverse to the return in which he asked that the petition stand as partial traverse and averred that the prison authorities "continue to treat petitioner in such a way...
		On October 26, 1951, Chessman first appeared in the superior court in the habeas corpus matter, the facilities which had been given him in connection with his representation of himself had been restored to him, and he admitted that the question of the deprivation of such facilities "in the abstract...
		The temporary separation of Chessman from his papers was shown to have been an incident of punishment for his violation of a reasonable prison rule against the creation of loud disturbances.
	online.ceb.com /CalCases/C2/44C2d1.htm (3276 words)

	America 1950-1959: Law and Justice History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chessman, in his efforts to avoid the gas chamber, became an author, a self-educated legal scholar, and a celebrity.
		On 23 January 1948 Chessman, a small-time hood then on parole, was arrested in a car matching the description of the bandit's, and inside the glove compartment were a gun and small flashlight of the type the ban.....
		Chessman was prosecuted under California's "Little Lindbergh Law," which specified that any kidnapping in which robbery was the motive and in which the victim was.....
	www.bookrags.com /history-america-1950s-law-and-justice/sub26.html (332 words)

	The Biography Channel - Caryl Chessman Biography
		In January 1948, Chessman was a 27 year old parolee from Folsom Prison, who had spent the better part of his adult life in and out of prison, when he was arrested in Los Angeles as the Red-Light Bandit.
		The Bandit would approach victims parked in lonely spots, flash a red light resembling that used by the police, and rob the victims, sometimes taking the woman to another area and forcing her to perform sexual acts with him.
		Chessman signed a confession, which he later recanted, saying that it had resulted from police brutality.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/351:0/Caryl_Chessman.htm (436 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Caryl Chessman, The Red Light Bandit
		Caryl Chessman, otherwise known as the Red Light Bandit, was born on 27 May, 1921, in California, USA.
		Caryl Chessman was a career criminal who had already spent most of his life behind bars when he was convicted of being the Red Light Bandit in 1948.
		While he was waiting to be killed, Caryl Chessman became a best-selling author and an icon for people in America and around the world who opposed the death penalty.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A7140052 (1002 words)

	In re Chessman (1954) 43 C2d 408
		CARTER, J. On July 16th, 1954, Caryl Chessman filed in the Supreme Court of the State of California a petition for a writ of habeas corpus fn.
		Chessman in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County by reason of the fraudulent conduct of the deputy district attorney of Los Angeles County who prosecuted said {Page 43 Cal.2d 411} action in the manner in which the purported record on appeal in said action was prepared.
		Fraser to the detriment of said Caryl Chessman in many material respects; that throughout the attempted transcription of said notes, said Stanley Fraser was in an inebriated condition and was required to rely extensively on the dictation of his relative, Mr.
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	Caryl Chessman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Caryl Chessman (27 May, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Chessman was given the death penalty in 1948 and executed in 1960, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, is the highest court in that jurisdiction and functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/caryl_chessman.htm (565 words)

	CarylChessman.com
		Caryl Chessman long claimed that he was innocent of the kidnapping and rape charges that sent him to death row.
		In The Face of Justice, Chessman claims that he arranged for proof of the identify of the real red-light bandit to be released 50 years to the day after California rejected a moratorium on the death penalty.
		Caryl Chessman was executed on May 2, 1960.
	www.prisonsucks.com /carylchessman (544 words)

	CarylChessman.com
		Caryl Chessman long claimed that he was innocent of the kidnapping and rape charges that sent him to death row.
		In The Face of Justice, Chessman claims that he arranged for proof of the identify of the real red-light bandit to be released 50 years to the day after California rejected a moratorium on the death penalty.
		Given that Chessman was prohibited from writing books and yet was able to do so while under constant surveillance and then smuggle the manuscripts out, it is credible that Chessman could have secured such evidence outside of the prison.
	www.carylchessman.com (544 words)

	CARYL CHESSMAN
		The Caryl Chessman case probably engendered more anti-capital punishment sentiment than any other case has, before or since.
		The Bandit would approach victims parked in lonely spots, flash a red light resembling that used by the police, and rob the victims -- sometimes taking the woman to another area and forcing her to perform sexual acts with him.
		Then began a 12 year struggle by Chessman to escape the gas chamber in San Quentin Prison.
	www.usc.edu /libraries/archives/la/scandals/chessman.html (380 words)

	Rebel and a Cause
		Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974
		This deft historical analysis of the famous Chessman case and of the entire spectrum of political and cultural struggle surrounding capital punishment should be read by lay people and experts alike.
		Rebel and a Cause places the Chessman case in a broad cultural and historical context, relating it to histories of prison reform, the anti-death penalty movement, the popularization of psychology, and the successive rise and decline of the New Left and the more enduring rise of the New Right.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9012.html (408 words)

	Amazon.com: Cell 2455, Death Row: Books: Caryl Chessman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Caryl Chessman does an excellent job in this autobiography of an intelligent young man who slips into hate against the system.
		Beginning in the 1930s, Caryl begins a life of crime that starts with petty theft and grows into shoot-outs with the police and his eventual death sentence.
		Caryl Chessman puts life into perspective as he found misfortune and trouble around almost every corner.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568495994?v=glance (560 words)

	Epinions.com - THE GOVERNOR AND THE CONDEMNED MAN
		The Bottom Line The Caryl Chessman case was a landmark in the history of capital punishment and the attempts to abolish it.
		Chessman insisted he was not guilty, and for almost 12 years up to that
		Chessman was guilty and that as long as capital punishment was on
	www.epinions.com /content_3872170116 (684 words)

	80 Stars for 80 Years - Rosalie Asher (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Death Penalty case of the “Red Light Bandit” was the most notorious of its time, a 12-year legal battle pitting San Quentin convict Caryl Chessman against the State of California and prompting outcries from the Rev. Billy Graham, Eleanor Roosevelt and countless other luminaries.
		Asher, who died in 2000, was a practicing attorney and the Sacramento County law librarian when she took on the Chessman case, which involved multiple counts of kidnapping, two alleged sexual assaults and robbery.
		Chessman spent much of his time on Death Row writing about his case and other legal issues.
	www.mcgeorge.edu /alumni_resources/eighty_for_eighty/bio_asher.htm (377 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
		Caryl Chessman was born May 27, 1921, at St. Joseph, Michigan and was raised in the Los Angeles area.
		He was known as the Red Light Bandit and was convicted on July 5, 1948, on 17 counts of kidnaping, robbery and sexual assaults.
		On May 2, 1960, Caryl Chessman was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison.
	foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/cchessman.htm (193 words)

	Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974... specs at ...
		Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974...
		Hamm analyzes how Chessman convinced thousands of Californians to support him, and why Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, who opposed the death penalty, allowed the execution to go forward.
		He also demonstrates the intrinsic limits of the popular commitment to the rehabilitative ideal."Rebel and a Cause places the Chessman case in a broad cultural and historical context, relating it to histories of prison reform, the anti-death penalty movement, the popularization of psychology, and the successive rise and decline of the Ne...
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	Black Voice News
		The Caryl Chessman case probably engendered more anti-capital punishment sentiment than any other case has, before or since (a hundred times more than the outcry to save Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams from execution in December 2005).
		Chessman was captured, convicted, and sentenced to death.
		Since the Chessman case, hundreds of rapes have been reported using the same M.O. A spin-off of the Red-light scheme is the bump and grab scheme.
	www.blackvoicenews.com /print.php?sid=4410 (451 words)

	Kitchen: Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974 $3.01 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kitchen: Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974 $3.01
		Rebel and a Cause places the Chessman case in a broad cultural and historical соntехt, relating it to histories of prison reform, the anti-death penalty movement, the popularization of psychology, and the successive rise and decline of the New Left and the more enduring risе of the New Right.
		Similarity for Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974
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	BackWhen.com - Where Are They Now? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Caryl Chessman, then 27, had been in and out of prison for petty crimes most of his adult life.
		The heart of the issue was the "Lindbergh Law," which was really designed to provide capital punishment for kidnap and ransom.
		Chessman's case did not really fit the situation, but the jury did not recommend mercy, so the judge and Governor Pat Brown, had little choice in the matter.
	backwhen.com /apps/remember?WhereID=48&offset=10 (329 words)

	Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler: News & Publications
		It was 1960, and apart from the campaign for the White House between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, there was one story that dominated the national news that spring – the case of Caryl Chessman.
		In 1948, the year I was born, a 25 year-old man named Caryl Chessman had been arrested in Los Angeles for robbing and raping a young woman.
		The governor of California who signed Chessman’s death warrant was Edmund G. Brown (father of subsequent governor Jerry Brown), who was personally opposed to the death penalty, but was constrained by the law.
	www.shapirosher.com /news/050205.htm (745 words)

	Hartford Advocate: Death Row Syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The unseemly racket they made over Ross' recent temporary stay has been beneath the dignity of this state, just as voting to approve the nomination as the nation's top justice official a man who condones torture and pooh-poohs the Geneva Convention is beneath the dignity of a U.S. senator (say it ain't so, Joe).
		On eight separate occasions Chessman was within minutes of taking the elevator downstairs from death row to the gas chamber housed just below the condemned men's cells, when an 11th-hour stay would be approved.
		Davis still finds it hard to believe they killed Chessman, though he agrees his continued presence on death row was an embarrassment to California, much as Ross is for Connecticut now.
	hartfordadvocate.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:99616 (710 words)

	STRIKING THROUGH THE MASK OR THE ALLEGORICAL MEANINGS IN MOBY-DICK (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now that Caryl Chessman is dead the public will breathe a sigh of welcome relief for he had become a sore trial to all.
		Chessman's execution focused attention on the problem of criminal punishment; but the problem is not unique to anyone case, city, state or nation.
		Caryl Chessman asked repeatedly in his autobiography, "Why Chessman?" Until this question is answered society will lack solutions to the problems of criminal mentality.
	members.cox.net /ramero/capital.htm (4404 words)

	Biographie: Caryl Chessman
		Surnommé "le bandit à la lanterne rouge", Chessman fut condamné à mort pour une série d'agressions sexuelles qu'il a toujours niées, et bien qu'il n'ait tué aucune de ses victimes.
		PARIS MATCH 568 - JEAN CLAUDE ROCHE -CHESSMAN 1960
		* PARIS MATCH n° 575 * (1960) - Belmondo/ Chessman
	www.affaires-criminelles.com /bio_119.php (464 words)

	Movie Info for Kill Me If You Can on MSN Movies
		The story of "red light bandit" Caryl Chessman, previously dramatized in the 1955 film Cell 2455, Death Row (based on Chessman's own book), was adapted for television as Kill Me If You Can.
		In a radical departure from his usual duties as MASH's Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda plays Chessman, who in 1948 was found guilty of robbery, kidnapping and sexual assault.
		Under the laws of the era, Chessman was sentenced to die in the gas chamber.
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