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Author Hostettler, John, author.

Title The Colour of Injustice : the Mysterious Murder of the Daughter of a High Court Judge / John Hostettler
Published Hook : Waterside Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Contents Cover; Copyright and publication details; Contents; About the Author ; List of Cases; Acknowledgment; Setting the Scene; Introduction; The Background; Re-appraisal; Political Influences; Northern Ireland in a Time Warp; Murder in the Glen; The Crime Scene not made Secure; The Victim's Mother; Disputed Place and Time of Death; Professor Crane's Report; Cursory Investigation and Inquiries; The Initial Investigation; RAF Edenmore; Selective Witnesses; Airmen Interviewed; Crucial Discrepancies; Why Was the Family Exonerated?; The Confession; Breaking his Mask; Iain Hay Gordon's Statement
"The Confession is False"Coercion; Insane; Mental Disorder and Homicide; The Homicide Act 1957; The Prosecution; Plea of Not Guilty; Prosecution Witnesses; Challenging the Confession; Evidence of Detective Superintendent Capstick; Arguing the Confession was Unfair; The Ruling of the Lord Chief Justice on the Confession; The Trial Resumed in the Presence of the Jury; Mrs Hetty Lyttle; Dr Kenneth Wilson; Dr Albert Wells; Desmond Curran in the Witness Box; The Defence; Defence Counsel's Opening Speech; Medical Evidence of the Defence; Brenda Gordon in the Witness Box; Douglas Gordon
Mrs Gordon RecalledExpert Psychiatric Evidence; Dr Rossiter Lewis; Dr James Alexander Savage Mulligan; Inadmissible Expert Evidence; Evidence of RAF Officers; Defence Closing Speech; The Judge Sums-up; Was the Summing-up of the Judge Fair?; A Case for "Justice"; Denial of Guilt; Efforts of Gordon's Parents; Petition; Application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission; New Evidence; Undisclosed Statements; Gideon Crawford; Other Witnesses; Man with a Large Facial Scar; Other Suspects; The Steel Family's Evidence; Patrick Mulrine; Richard Gould; Sarah Elizabeth White; James Killen Spence
The Criminal Cases Review CommissionSome Miscarriages of Justice; Police Corruption; The CCRC take up Gordon's Case; Independent Body; Legal Hiccup; Review of the Confession; Fresh Expert Evidence; Conclusions; Non-Disclosure of Evidence; The Duty of Disclosure; Instances of Non-Disclosure; Identification Evidence; Visual Identification and the Law; The Summing-up of the Lord Chief Justice; On Appeal; Dismissive Reference to Fresh Evidence; Original Verdict "Unsafe"; Judgment; The Test of an Unsafe Finding; The Application of Current Standards; Whether the Finding was Unsafe
The Conduct of the TrialThe Judge's Summing-up; Dr Lewis's Evidence; Non-Disclosure of Documents; Marcella Devlin's Statement; The Admissibility of the Confession; The Additional Medical Evidence; The Safety of the Finding of Guilt; The Relationship of the Court of Appeal to the Criminal Cases Review Commission; Dismissive Attitude; The Case of Derek Bentley; The Case of Ruth Ellis; The Case of James Hanratty; The Case of Timothy Evans; R v Gore; The Influence of Stormont Policies on the Legal Process; Abuse of Power; Weakness of Defence Team; Disturbing Factors; Aftermath; Nightmares
Summary The case of Ian Hay Gordon involves a miscarriage of justice brought about in circumstances of privilege, patronage and the social and religious divides existing in Northern Ireland in the decades following World War II
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 26, 2013)
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Northern Ireland
Insanity (Law) -- Northern Ireland -- Cases
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Insanity (Law)
Northern Ireland
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781908162373
1908162376
Other Titles Color of Injustice