The trials of Eroy Brown : the murder case that shook the Texas prison system / Michael Berryhill.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 31.
Main Author: Berryhill, Michael
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2011], ©2011.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 31.
Subjects:
Brown, Eroy.
Trials (Murder) > Texas.
Prison administration > Corrupt practices > Texas > Case studies.
Prison homicide > Texas > Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:viii, 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A fishing trip to Ellis Prison
  • Death at Turkey Creek
  • Estelle's bitterness
  • A confusing scene
  • The aura of Ellis
  • The witch and the writ writers
  • The question of the gun
  • The shadow of Ruiz
  • Weasel
  • The dangers of testifying
  • Old thing
  • Eroy as aggressor
  • The defense is self-defense
  • Eroy's story
  • The perfect defendant
  • The TDC on trial
  • The arc of the moral universe
  • The shoes of Eroy Brown
  • Politics and prisons
  • The state tries again
  • A cat batters a mouse
  • Twenty-three jurors
  • Still not protected
  • Paying for justice
  • The end of an era
  • Free at last
  • Aftermath.