Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donald S. Connery's Guilty Until Proven Innocent traces this bizarre case, showing how prosecutors almost destroyed an impressionable but inofensive teenager. The police forced Reilly to confess he killed his mother. The illegitimate son's allegedly stormy relationship with his mother was named as the motive. Connery goes beyond outlining the skeletal facts of the case, focusing on how Falls Village reacted to the case. Two families--one Jewish and the other Italian--virtually adopted Reilly after the murder, mortgaging their homes to provide bail money and hiring him to babysit for their children in order to demonstrate their...
...Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Connery gives a gripping description of an average kid interested in cars and an electric guitar caught up in a situation he cannot comprehend. Reilly had always thought of the local police as friends and because of it never requested a lawyer's presence during his initial interrogation...
Guilty Until Proven Innocent provides no categorical condemnations of the judicial system, though it easily could have. It seems that if Reilly had come from a poor urban setting, as do most juvenile delinquents, he would still be in jail today. Connery outlines the police and district attorney's mistakes, malicious and unwitting, but he views them with a touch of sympathy. What he writes instead is a compelling if somewhat sentimental story of a town with something more than cover-bridged innocence...
...need of any of the world's intelligence services to steady his hand, eye and malevolent will as the Kennedy motorcade rolled into his line of fire in Dallas. He had long before been possessed of the essential preconditions for his crime: abundantly sufficient interior motives and a proven predisposition for homicidal violence...
...that the "national security" red herring is alive and well in the corridors of Washington these days, the moral of the Watergate parable notwithstanding. Allowing the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director to plead nolo contendre to two misdemeanor counts of failing to testify fully to Congress may have proven the most expeditious way of wrapping up the two-year-old investigation of Helms, but the circumstances surrounding the plea-bargain arrangement and its announcement has raised serious questions about the Justice Department's modus operandi that will ensure a lengthy epilogue to the entire story...