Linus J. Hammond files, 1960-1967.

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Linus J. Hammond files, 1960-1967.

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Correspondence, reports, policy statements, bill drafts, and miscellaneous materials relating to committees in which Linus J. Hammond, as an assistant attorney general, participated, particularly the Governor's Commission on Crime and Delinquency and a Committee on Post-Conviction Relief. The latter was formed to draft a bill for submission to the Minnesota legislature that would provide a mechanism for challenging criminal convictions.

0.2 cu. ft. (7 folders)

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Hammond, Linus J.

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Minnesota. Governor's Commission on Criminal Delinquency.

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Minnesota. Attorney General

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...

Minnesota. Committee on Post-Conviction Relief.

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