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The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) is a memoir by American attorney Bryan Stevenson that documents his career defending disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children ...
James Arthur Ray (November 22, 1957 – January 3, 2025) [1] was an American self-help businessman, motivational speaker, author and convicted felon who was found guilty in 2011 of causing three deaths through negligent homicide.
John Brown was being sentenced in a courtroom packed with whites in Charles Town, Virginia, after his conviction for murder, treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, and inciting a slave insurrection. [2]: 340 According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the speech's only equal in American oratory was the Gettysburg Address. [3] [4] [5]
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) [2] was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Fiction for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 [3] and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937.
Nevertheless, the initial conviction was annulled by the Supreme Court after a thorough investigation. In 1899, Dreyfus returned to France for a retrial, but although found guilty again, he was pardoned. [5] In 1906, Dreyfus appealed his case again; he obtained the annulment of his guilty verdict.
The former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, 76, who was first hired by Mr Trump’s father Fred Trump as an accountant in 1973, was convicted in 2022 on 15 violations of New York ...
Jack Henry Abbott (January 21, 1944 – February 10, 2002) was an American criminal and author.With a long history of criminal convictions, Abbott's writing concerning his life and experiences was lauded by a number of well-known literary critics, including author Norman Mailer.