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 Current Search - Defend in To Kill a Mockingbird
1  Atticus turned to the defendant.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18
2  Yeah, but Atticus aims to defend him.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16
3  The spectators were quiet, but the defendant said something.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17
4  The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20
5  Her father saw it, and the defendant has testified as to his remarks.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20
6  He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
7  The law says 'reasonable doubt,' but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of a doubt.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23
8  A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21
9  "Atticus don't ever do anything to Jem and me in the house that he don't do in the yard," I said, feeling it my duty to defend my parent.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5
10  Miss Mayella, not to be tedious, you've testified that the defendant hit you, grabbed you around the neck, choked you, and took advantage of you.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18
11  After many telephone calls, much pleading on behalf of the defendant, and a long forgiving letter from his mother, it was decided that Dill could stay.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15
12  I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20
13  Scout, you aren't old enough to understand some things yet, but there's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
14  It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20
15  With these attributes, however, he would not remain as inconspicuous as we wished him to: that year, the school buzzed with talk about him defending Tom Robinson, none of which was complimentary.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10
16  We were surprised to find that we had been gone nearly an hour, and were equally surprised to find the courtroom exactly as we had left it, with minor changes: the jury box was empty, the defendant was gone; Judge Taylor had been gone, but he reappeared as we were seating ourselves.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21
17  Gentlemen," he was saying, "I shall be brief, but I would like to use my remaining time with you to remind you that this case is not a difficult one, it requires no minute sifting of complicated facts, but it does require you to be sure beyond all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20
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