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Peter H. Klopfer

Peter H. Klopfer was a Duke University biologist. In 1962 he and his wife Martha joined other Quakers in founding Carolina Friends School, later built on land the Klopfers gave. Charged with trespass after a 1964 sit-in attempt at Watts Grill in Chapel Hill, he challenged the state's practice of holding charges open indefinitely. In March 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Klopfer v. North Carolina that the speedy-trial right binds the states.

Source: WUNC: Peter Klopfer, a Duke biologist and founder of its Lemur Center as well as a civil rights…

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  1. Quakers from the Chapel Hill and Durham meetings found Carolina Friends School Members of the Chapel Hill and Durham Friends meetings founded Carolina Friends School as a purposely integrated school, beginning with early education programs in the two meeting houses. Mildred Ringwalt was one of the seven founders and the first clerk of its board of trustees. People: Mildred Ringwalt, Peter H. Klopfer Place: Chapel Hill Friends Meeting House, Chapel HillSearch the index · Carolina Friends School: Our History
  2. Supreme Court hears Klopfer v. North Carolina The Supreme Court heard arguments in Peter Klopfer’s speedy-trial case, arising from an Orange County trespass prosecution. People: Peter H. Klopfer Place: Washington, D.C.; Orange County case · Also named: Peter Klopfer, U.S. Supreme CourtJustia
  3. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Klopfer v. North Carolina, the speedy-trial case that grew out of a Chapel Hill sit-in arrest The Supreme Court applied the constitutional speedy-trial right to state prosecutions in Peter Klopfer’s case. People: Peter H. Klopfer Place: Washington, D.C.; Orange County case · Also named: Peter KlopferKlopfer v. North Carolina, 386 U.S. 213 (1967) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 14, 1967, p. 1

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Demise of an "extraordinary criminal procedure" : Klopfer v. North Carolina and the incorporation of the Sixth Amendment's speedy trial provision

Mosnier, Joseph · 1989

Joseph Mosnier's 1989 account of Klopfer v. North Carolina, the case that carried the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial into state courts by way of the United States Supreme Court. The study joins due process law in the state to race relations in Chapel Hill. Ninety-seven leaves with a bibliography.

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