You’re beautiful,” he said. “When was the last time I told you that you are beautiful?” “About two hours ago.” “Two hours! How thoughtless of me!” “Don’t let it happen again.” He.
Perhaps in another era, a trial was an exercise in the presentation of facts, the search for truth, and the finding of justice. Now a trial is a contest in which one side will win and the other side will lose. Each side expects the other to bend the rules or to cheat, so neither side plays fair. The truth is lost in the melee.
These are mistakes, not regrets. Regrets are over and done with and a waste of time to rehash. Mistakes, though, are bad moves in the past that might affect the future.
And it’s often the one you trust the most who’ll cut your throat for the right price.
Since 1990, Oklahoma has executed more convicts on a per capita basis than any other state. No place, not even Texas, comes close.
The prosecution was forced into the bizarre position of admitting Ward and Fontenot were lying while asking the jurors to believe them.
People were classified, and often judged, by their denomination. And they were certainly condemned if they didn’t claim one.
A lawyer had to be himself in the courtroom, and if he was afraid, so be it. The jurors were afraid too. Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.
Rich folks can tolerate almost anything, but not rejection.
There’s an old adage in bad trial lawyering that when you don’t have the facts, do a lot of yelling.
If the cops can’t convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.
One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot.
This is a free country... you can do almost anything you want.
Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.
As in any war, the truth is the first casualty. I.
The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna’s oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The.
Such is the lunacy and unfairness of the system. Huver’s witnesses, the ones testifying on behalf of the State, are cloaked with legitimacy, as if they’ve been sanctified by the authorities. Cops, experts, even snitches who’ve been washed and cleansed and spruced up in nice clothes, all take the stand and tell lies in a coordinated effort to have my client executed. But the witnesses who know the truth, and are telling it, are discounted immediately and made to look like fools.
She was a good swimmer but we never used life jackets.” “It wouldn’t matter in that storm.
You just don’t understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it’s harmless. We all look. Come on.
This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back.