Center on Wrongful Convictions

DELBERT TIBBS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Delbert Lee Tibbs Case Bibliography

Compiled by Rob Warden

Copyright © 2006, Center on Wrongful Convictions

Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law

Michael L. Radelet, et al., In Spite of Innocence, 1992.

Studs Terkel, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, 2001.

Tibbs v. State, 337 So. 2d 788 (1976).

Tibbs v. Florida, 432 F. Supp. 1045 (1977).

Tibbs v. Florida, 397 So. 2d 1120 (1981).

Tibbs v. Florida, 457 U.S. 31 (1982).

Barbara Frye, “Death Row Black Poet Gets Retrial, Florida Times-Union (UPI), July 29, 1976.

Lee Melsek, “Ex-prosecutor Has Doubts that Tibbs is the Guilty Man,” Fort Myers News- Press, June 28, 1978, p. 1.

John Arnold, “Court Allows Retrial for Man Once Freed,” Miami Herald, June 8, 1982

Frances D. Williams, “189 on Death Row Exhaust Legalities, Lawmen’s Patience,” Fort Myers News-Press, Sept. 6, 1982, p. 1.

Frances D. Williams, “Tibbs Getting Used to Bitter Freedom,” Fort Myers News-Press, November 7, 1982, p. 1

Robert McClory, “Justice for Mr. Tibbs,” Chicago Reader, Feb 11, 1983, p 1.

Dean Schott, “Given New Life, He Fights Executions,” Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 29, 1985.

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