Word: quins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chickasaw Gardens--Where Lamar and Kay Quin live. In real life, the house belongs to the Dobbs', who own several car dealerships. Chickasaw Gardens has quiet, tree-lined streets, ever-present trees, lots of children, large and usually beautiful houses and a lake, complete with ducks. It also has an annoying entrance gate, a moderate but persistent crime problem and a wildly skewed racial balance (until a few years ago, all the 200 plus families in the Gardens were white). Yes, this is my neighborhood. It's got its ups and downs...
...biggest change is likely to be one of perception. "I don't think it will open up the legal floodgates, but it may open emotional and political ones," said Sacramento attorney Quin Denvir, who currently represents three inmates on death row. "In the past, jurors thought that if they sentenced someone to death, they'd never really get it. Now everyone in the system will see that the death penalty means the state will actually gas a person. Before it was more theoretical than real. Now the theory ends and reality begins...