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each one of us bears ultimate responsibility for what we do with our grief.
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After my father's death, I watched my mother and Uncle Teddy--my father's last living brother--plea to the judge to allow his alleged killer, Sirhan Sirhan, to escape the death penalty.
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The deaths of Crawford and Byrne, Tommy's ostracism, and Michael's imprisonment were all part of the spreading ripples of misery from Martha's tragic murder
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Someone killed Martha Moxley and got away with it. And the reason he got away with it was that the Greenwich Police Department ... didn't have the courage to go after him.
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As Fuhrman himself acknowledged, nobody would buy a book about Kenny Littleton. Kenny wasn't related to anyone famous.
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In the 1980s, Fuhrman attempted to earn disability pay from the LAPD by claiming to be mentally unbalanced and homicidal. "I have this urge to kill people, which upsets me," he told a police psychiatrist. Fuhrman admitted that he got into altercations nearly every day of his life and confessed that he needed to be "violent to exist."
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Levitt told me that Fuhrman "based his conclusions about Michael on intuition rather than fact."
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He told anybody who'd listen that if a grand jury were to be called, the world had one guy to thank. "I'm going to take credit for it, along with the Moxley family," he told USA Today. He said he'd rescued an investigation that had been thoroughly bungled, most notably by Garr."
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Benedict, was obviously monitoring the press closely and paying more attention to Fuhrman than to the detective in charge of the case.
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Adopting Fuhrman's theory, the
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As Jay Leno suggested, referring to the Skakel trial, many people would prefer to be found guilty of murder than be suspected of masturbating in a tree: "I would rather confess to murder. Wouldn't you?" Leno quipped."
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while our grief would never get smaller, our job was to build ourselves bigger around it; vengeance would only diminish us and widen the reverberations of misery.
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Revenge and resentments, my mother said, are corrosive. Indulging them is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die. By opposing the death penalty for Sirhan, we diluted those poisonous passions.
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WE ALL have a duty to see that our efforts to heal from grief do not compound the tragedy and punish the innocent.
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The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law applied by an independent judiciary immune to the gusting winds of popular sentiment. --Caroline Kennedy
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But when I was a child, the grown-ups taught us to ignore malicious gossip, and never to dignify it with a response.
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