University of Southern California Law School Legal Studies Working Paper Series Year  Paper  The Case of “Death for a Dollar Ninety-Five”: Miscarriages of Justice and Constructions of American Identity Mary L. Dudziak ∗ * University of Southern California Law School, mdudziak@law.usc.edu This working paper is hosted by The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) and may not be commer- cially reproduced without the permission of the copyright holder. http://law.bepress.com/usclwps-lss/art1 Copyright c 2010 by the author.