Contribution to Book
McQuirter v. State: Judgment
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
Editor
Bennett Capers, Sarah Deer, & Corey Rayburn Yung
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Disciplines
Abstract
This vintage rape case concerns an Alabama court’s determination that the jury may consider “social conditions and customs founded upon racial differences, such that the prosecutrix was a white woman and the defendant was a Negro man” in assessing a Black defendant’s culpability for assault with intent to rape. This case represents how rape law was weaponized against Black men and is an ideal case for a feminist rewritten opinion to interrogate how race and rape are closely intertwined.
DOI
10.1017/9781009091978.003
ISBN
9781316515112
Citation Information
Cortney E. Lollar, McQuirter v. State: Judgment, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions 16 (Bennett Capers, Sarah Deer, & Corey Rayburn Yung, eds. 2022).
External Links
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