Scott P. Johnson, Ph.D., has been a professor of political science, coordinator of Law & Society, and pre-law advisor at Frostburg State University since 1999. He has written articles in law journals and law reviews regarding the Supreme Court’s unanimous decisions, the presidential pardon power and Justice David Souter and the First Amendment. He also published an encyclopedia entitled “Trials of the Century” (ABC-CLIO, 2010) and the book, “The Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)

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