McQuirter v. State: Judgment

Publication Title

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions

Editor

Bennett Capers, Sarah Deer, & Corey Rayburn Yung

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2022

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.

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External Links

Cambridge University Press

Google Books

Recommended Citation

Cortney E. Lollar, McQuirter v. State: Judgment, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions 16 (Bennett Capers, Sarah Deer, & Corey Rayburn Yung, eds. 2022).

DOI

10.1017/9781009091978.003

ISBN

9781316515112

First Page

16

Last Page

25

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