Truman Capote Quote

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

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  Truman Capote. MLQuotes.com. SmilingMind, 2013. http://www.mlquotes.com/quotes/truman-capote_73336/, accessed May 22, 2013.
  
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  "Truman Capote." MLQuotes.com. SmilingMind, 2013. 22 May. 2013 http://www.mlquotes.com/quotes/truman-capote_73336/

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