Miscellaneous [Faux] Americana (Part II) -- John Merryman: Time Traveller

--Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Civil Liberty and the Civil War: The Indianapolis Treason Trials, 72 Indiana Law Journal 927 (1997):

"[John] Merryman [was] suspected [by the authorities] of being a major actor in the dynamiting of the railroad bridges."

--Geoffrey R. Stone, Civil Liberties in Wartime, 28(3) Journal of Supreme Court History 215 (Nov. 2003):

"Union soldiers seized John Merryman, a cavalryman who had allegedly burned bridges and destroyed telephone wires during the April riots."

Do you see the problems here?

For more on Professor Stone ... See generally Tillman, Response to Geoffrey Stone’s Nimmer Lecture, 114 Penn State Law Review 391 (2009); Ramesh Ponnuru, Letter to the Editor, On Geoffrey Stone, National Review Online: The Corner (Aug. 30, 2013, 1:36 PM), . 

PS: My prior post is here: Seth Barrett Tillman, Is it the Constitution which evolves or Judge Posner?, The New Reform Club (Jan. 13, 2016, 2:53 PM)

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