A preconceived conclusion can exist and slant the findings toward that suspect.
Nor did she like society’s way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.
He made a mistake, one that would send him to death row and eventually cost him his freedom for life.
It was the eyes, the cold black eyes with layers of black wrinkles around them. Great eyes. Unforgettable eyes. His hair was white and thin on top with thickets around the ears, and the whiteness contrasted sharply with the rest of his face. When he spoke, the eyes narrowed and the black pupils glowed fiercely. Sinister eyes. Knowing eyes.
About a month later, Riggins changed his mind. In an interview with the police, he said he was incorrect about Ron Williamson, that in fact the man he heard doing the confessing was Glen Gore.
I’ve lost my love for money. It’s the curse of the devil.
Hopt v. Utah, the Supreme Court ruled that a confession is not admissible if it is obtained by operating on the hopes or fears of the accused, and in doing so deprives him of the freedom of will or self-control necessary to make a voluntary statement.
Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family,” Joel said.
Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch in 1920. Mickey Cochrane never played again after taking one in the head. Tony Conigliaro was a certain Hall of Famer, then he got beaned in the eye. I.
They were dumbfounded. The man was thoroughly incapable of admitting a mistake or grasping the reality of the situation.
There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.
Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.
I’m concerned. He witnessed something awful, and he might be in shock.
The truth was that, at the age of thirty-six, Lacy was content to live alone, to sleep in the center of the bed, to clean up only after herself, to make and spend her own money, to come and go as she pleased, to pursue her career without worrying about his, to plan her evenings with input from no one else, to cook or not to cook, and to have sole possession of the remote control.
For her, the holidays began in late October and steadily gathered momentum until the big bang, a ten-hour marathon on Christmas Day with four meals and a packed house.
I did manage to ditch my prologue add quotation marks to my dialogue, take out the big words, and I would have cut some more but there’s not enough to cut.
This is a game for me, and you have to admit I play it rather well.
Mine was the only white face in the crowded restaurant, but I was coming to terms with my whiteness. No one had tried to murder me yet. No one seemed to care.
God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.
The bloodstain expert who testified against Quincy was a former Denver homicide detective named Paul Norwood. After working crime scenes for a few years, he had decided to.