Word: convicted
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...almost sure to say, My God, that could be me. And nothing makes blacks feel more helpless than the thought that they cannot do anything about it. However innocent a black may be, and however outrageously he or she may be treated, the criminal-justice system simply will not convict policemen of using excessive force...
...whites, said they thought before the verdict that the policemen would be found guilty. On many other questions, a majority or plurality of one race agreed with a much larger segment of the other: 62% of whites, but 92% of blacks, thought they would have voted to convict if they had been on the jury. The riots that followed were condemned as completely unjustified by 63% of whites and 42% of the blacks; an additional 20% of blacks and 14% of whites found them somewhat unjustified (though 15% of blacks and only 4% of whites thought they were completely justified...
Though some of the children's tales verged on the fantastic, their testimony proved strong enough to convict Kelly, 44, on 99 counts of sexually abusing a dozen children at his preschool in this remote town perched on the edge of Albemarle Sound.The verdict brought to an end the longest (eight months) and most expensive (estimated cost: $1.2 million) trial in North Carolina history. Often compared with California's landmark McMartin Pre-School case, whose defendants were ultimately acquitted, the trial aroused heated passions in the bucolic community of Edenton, where many residents were torn between outrage over the alleged...
Robert J. Bouffier, playing John Wisehammer, a convict fascinated by the power of words, also deserves attention. He frequently quotes from Johnson's Dictionary: "abject: a man without hope" and has secret hopes of becoming a playwright. In fact, Wertenbaker makes him the voice for the words which name this play: "True patriots we, for be it understood/We left our country for our country's good." (Incidentally, these lines are generally attributed to George Barrington, but nevermind...
...self-righteous stick of a man who reforms and is made human by the play which he directs. Gutmann is not convincing as the man who used to kiss the portrait of his wife a thousand times before he went to bed, and declared: "I'm not a convict. I don't sin"--nor is he as the man who has an adulterous affair with a pretty convict...