“In late twentieth-century America, this "jurisprudence of lawlessness" is a bit out of (fate. While there is a vigorous victim-rights movement in our nation'' and increasingly strong compassion for the victims of rape,7 the day is long since past when… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“There was a logic behind the English cocoon-law requirement of a duty to retreat in a threatening situation: it was that the state-the Crown-wished to retain a monopoly of the resolution of conflict at the level of' dispute between individuals.” — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the tendency of the Americain iiuud seems to he very strongly against the enforcement of any rule which requires a person to flee… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Following the Civil War, Americans began to perceive it new version of the earlier land-population-wealth crisis as an alarming trend of land consolidation and… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Kearney did not go as far in geographic distance as he did in mode of livelihood: although he only went across San Francisco Bay… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“What might have developed into it great controversy in England over the duty to retreat failed to occur in the absence of conditions like… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“A man is not born to run away." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921).*” — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Although Holmes's apothegm, "detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife," is sometimes quoted, Holmes scholars have generally ignored the… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“The new surveillance is spearheaded by burgeoning, ever-more-sophisticated electronic means that include-among a staggering array of devices-potent lasers, parabolic microphones and other "bugs" with… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“A recent widely publicized case unites themes of no duty to retreat and, in individual terms, conquest and mastery. This was the case of… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“It is these conceptual categories of incorporatior gunji{~/iterc and resister gunfighters and not the mythical categories of' hero and villain that are the keys… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“With a significant reduction in crime and with other changes in the American and international order of the Will of the century front the… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Because the gunfight near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, a year and a half after the Mussel Slough shootout, took place in a… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
