Word: davises
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Yet this elaborate sociological discussion of ethnicity, as fascinating as it is, only serves as a prelude to Patterson's commentary on the current new ethnicity debate. In his sixth chapter, "The Modern Revival of Ethnicity: With Special Reference to the United States," he moves in for the kill. Here...
At first glance, it appeared to be an open-and-shut case. Priscilla, Gavrel and a girl friend with him that evening identified Davis as the assailant. The couple had been quarreling bitterly over money; only days before, Davis had been ordered to increase support payments to Priscilla to $5...
The D.A.'s office is seeking the death penalty, and Davis has hired a team of nine lawyers, supplemented by twelve investigators and secretaries, to represent him. Foremost among them is Richard ("Racehorse") Haynes, a flamboyant character fond of hand-tooled ostrich-hide boots and aggressive tactics of crossexamination...
With her hip-hugger jeans and Indian jewelry, Priscilla has never been a favorite of Forth Worth society-one executive described her as "a lady who looked like she had spent too much time in bowling alleys"-and Haynes has concentrated less on an alibi for Davis than on his...
As wildly divergent as the testimony was, with the money and life of a millionaire at stake, every story had some plausibility. "You have Cullen Davis and Priscilla," summed up ex-Prosecutor Judge George Dowlen. "Both know exactly what happened, and who is telling the truth and who is lying...