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Most shocking is the evidence the defense never presented. A few days after the murder, Keester Shortridge, who lived near the McCoys, found in the back of his truck a plastic bag stuffed with blood-soaked lilac sheets, two Van Heusen cowboy shirts and a pair of scissors. Instead of calling the police, Shortridge buried the bag in a landfill. A few weeks ago, Jordan signed an affidavit stating that he too knew about Shortridge's discovery of the sheets prior to the trial. "I considered the information useless," he stated. Under the Supreme Court's current interpretation of habeas...
...lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night. [The Black world offered] just old-fashioned spade kicks, what other kicks are there...
...historical subjects during his student training at Cormon's academy. There are six immobile figures: one standing with her chemise hiked up as though getting ready for a medical inspection; the other five sitting in postures of frozen relaxation on the big plum-colored sofas. Madame presides in her lilac dress, like a weary priestess at a rite. The self-conscious geometry of the poses, dominated by the black angular legs of the girl in the foreground, reinforces the plush silence...
...Holy Names Academy she was gregarious and peppy; Sister Bernadine Casey remembers a "pleasant, lovely and active student" who had a "gift for writing." Kitty made the cheerleading squad and was elected "Friendliest Girl" for four years running. She was chosen the school's "Lilac Princess," and rode a float in the annual Lilac Festival parade...
...always had problems to go to Kendall square by myself. Kendall square has always been scary," said Lilac Muller, an MIT sophomore...