Richard Brust

Richard Brust

Richard was Assistant Managing Editor at the ABA Journal from 1997-2015. He supervised the National Pulse and Supreme Court sections, and wrote features on topics in legal history. Richard is an award-winning writer and editor, and has a law degree from Temple University. He recently was awarded a Ph.D. in History from the University of Florida.

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June 4, 2025

How a Florida murder and an unlikely justice created a ‘criminal procedure revolution’

In Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution, historian and former ABA Journal reporter Richard Brust lifts the veil on a case that laid the groundwork for some much more famous civil...