Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lesson Before Dying is, like Ernest Gaines' best-known novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, set in rural Louisiana. The year is 1948, and the particulars have a familiar ring. A young, black male is convicted of murder and sentenced to death on inconclusive evidence. The youth, called Jefferson, had the bad luck to be in a white man's store at the same time that two acquaintances attempted a robbery. They shoot the owner, but not before he fires effectively at them. Left with three dead men on the floor, Jefferson panics and helps himself to a bottle...
...variation on court-appointed attorneys, popular in rural areas, is a contract system under which lawyers receive a flat rate. The fee is usually so meager that these attorneys maintain a private practice on the side. Such a system, says Bright, results in "lawyers who view their responsibilities as unwanted burdens, have no inclination to help the client and have no incentive to learn or to develop criminal trial skills." When expenses mount, they economize by refusing the collect calls of their jailed clients. Under a contract system, says L.A.'s Tennenbaum, "you don't investigate...
...hundred years ago these were rural areas, but not any more," Duehay says. "Waltham has developed underground sewage and gasoline tanks in the area of the [Hobbs Brook] Reservoir...
...McMillian was life eerily imitating art. McMillian, a black man accused of a murder he didn't commit, watched his drama unfold in the place considered the setting for the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a wrenching tale of racial injustice in the white-picket world of the rural South...
...peaceful, beautiful Quad setting combines the advantages of a small rural school with those of Harvard and Cambridge," Last says...