God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed…-Judge Frank Howell Seay
He hadn’t hit her in several years, but when you’ve been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woma...
He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral.
He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter
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 se...
How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinfu...
Hubbard obtained the land from Sylvester’s widow.
I learned a long time ago not to waste time analyzing why judges do the things they do.
I was guilty all right. Guilty of stupidity for allowing myself to fall into such a mess.
I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on...
I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
If the cops can’t convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.
If you're not nervous, son, then something is wrong.
In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and you can retire. That's one reason lawyers do so many sleazy things, like full-color ads in the...
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
Jake
Life is short..Live to the fullest..
Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up.
Look at me, he said, glancing down at his legs. A wretched old man in a red monkey suit. A convicted murderer about to be gassed like an animal. And look at you. A fine young man with a beautiful educ...
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