The public pressure was intense surrounding Ronald and Wanda Maddux’s guilt of murdering their 4-year-old daughter, Melisha Gibson. Petitions and protests called for the Madduxes to be put to death. Country music star Hank Snow even wrote TN Govenor Ray Blanton demanding the death penalty for anyone convicted of child abuse.
I tend to think of the road to a trial being an ordered and logical progression from arrest to arraignment to trial. The road to a trial should be well-marked and driven upon with caution. But it seems to me as if the typical slow and steady drive on the road to a trial didn’t happen. It was more like this case was hijacked by a bunch of teens delivering bootleg moonshine, careening through the Appalachian mountains with the acceleration pedal firmly stomped to the floor.
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2.9 Fight for Justice: Whatever Happens, Happens in Tracey v. City of Torrington
2.8 Fight for Justice: Unequal Protection and the 14th Amendment
2.7 Fight for Justice: What about the Baby?
2.6 Targeted Topic: Restraining Orders – Worth the Paper They’re Written On?
2.5 Fight for Justice: The Trials of Buck
2.4 Fight for Justice: The Aftermath
2.3 Why Did She Stay? The Leaving Process and Media Messages about Love Final.
2.2 Fight for Justice: I Will Get You and I Will Hurt You
2.1 Season Two Introduction
1.20 Fight for Justice: Looking Toward Season Two (Season Finale)
1.19 Missy, We Won't Forget (Case Wrap-Up)
1.18 Targeted Topic: Why Do Abusers Stay? With Kate, Ignorance Was Bliss podcast
1.17 Targeted Topic: When the SPCA Saved a Child
1.16 Roundtable
1.15 Child Abuse Laws: Not a Story of Failure, but of Progress & Hope
1.14 No Longer in the Shadows: Child Abuse
1.13 Keeping Families Together
1.12 On the Banks of the Nile: The Verdict & Aftermath
1.11 Plumb Wild: The Mother's Defense
1.10 The Stepfather's Defense
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