Guides: Good Sentences: Criminal Law

Literary Sentences

It Will Look Like a Sunset
By Kelly Sundberg, Guernica: a magazine of global arts & politics (April 1, 2014)
The Killers
By Ernest Hemingway (1927)
Adams
By George Saunders, The New Yorker (August 9, 2004)
The Execution of Tropmann
By Ivan Turgenev, Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments, translated by David Magarshack, p. 244-70 (1958)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works (1953)
The Simple Art of Murder
By Raymond Chandler, The Atlantic Monthly (December 1944)
Black Boy (Excerpt)
By Richard Wright, Black Boy, pp. 218-27 (1945)
The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
By C.S. Lewis, Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1987)
Criminal
By Stephen Dunn, Riffs and Reciprocities, p. 87 (1998)
Ain't That Good News
By Brit Bennet, Kweli Journal (December 22, 2014)
Medusa
By Pat Barker, The New Yorker (April 8, 2019)

Poetic Sentences

Crime Club
By Weldon Kees, Poetry (September 1943)
The Burglary
By Linda Pastan, The New Yorker (November 16, 2009)
Watching Another Drug Bust
By Jim Daniels, Birth Marks: Poems by Jim Daniels, pp. 91-92 (2013)
The Robbery
By Santee Frazier, Dark Thirty (2009), available from the Poetry Foundation

Spoken Sentences

Books

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Call Number: Avern Cohn Fiction Coll. PG3326 .P7 2004x
Publication Date: 1866
Native Son by Richard Wright
Call Number: Avern Cohn Fiction Coll. PS3545.R815 N25 2005
Publication Date: 1940
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer; Dave Eggers (Foreword by)
Call Number: Writing Reserve PS3525.A4152 E89 2012
Publication Date: 2012-05-08
A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
Call Number: Writing Reserve PS648.S5 B45 2000
Publication Date: 2005
Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
Call Number: Hatcher Graduate - 1A North HV6529 .L46 2014
Publication Date: 2015
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Call Number: HV6533.K3 C3 1965
Publication Date: 1994
Uneasy Peace by Patrick Sharkey
Call Number: Shapiro - Basement HV6789 .S49 2018
Publication Date: 2018
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
Publication Date: 2014
Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
Call Number: E 185.97 .K5 S534 2011
Publication Date: 2011
"Brothers" in Sherwood Anderson: collected stories by Sherwood Anderson; Charles Baxter (Editor)
Call Number: PS 3501 .N4 A6 2012
Publication Date: 2012

Journalistic Sentences

My Habit
By Paul Sheehan, The New Yorker (February 12, 1996)
Who Shot Johnny?
By Debra Dickerson, The New Republic (January 1, 1996)
The Truck Stop Killer
By Vanessa Veselka, GQ (October 24, 2012)
The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob
By Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly (November 2005)
The Crooked Ladder
By Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker: (August 11, 2014)
Gangleader For a Day (Excerpt)
By Sudhir Venkatesh, The Wall Street Journal (January 18, 2008)
Scar Tissue
by Emily Bernard, The American Scholar (Autumn 2011)
Queens of the Stoned Age
By Suketu Mehta, GQ (February 14, 2017)
An Unbelievable Story of Rape
By T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong, ProPublica & The Marshall Project (December 16, 2015)
An Arrogant Way of Killing
By Evan Ratliff, The Atavist Magazine: The Mastermind (March 10, 2016)
Innocence is Irrelevant
By Emily Yoffe, The Atlantic (September 2016)
More Justice, Less Crime
By Joseph M. Bessette, Claremont Review of Books (July 31, 2017)
The Girl From Plainville
By Jesse Barron, Esquire (August 23, 2017)
Two Murder Convictions for One Fatal Shot
In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.
By Ken Armstrong, The New Yorker (November 13, 2017)
Arms Dealers
When eight heads arrived at a shipping warehouse in Detroit, the feds uncovered some unsavory details about the little-known trade in human remains.
By Peter Andrey Smith, Pacific Standard (November 7, 2017)
Hunting Child Predators with Canada's Freelance Vigilantes
Rival Canadian groups team up to publicly shame adults seeking dates with underage teenagers. But is it possible to be an ethical avenger?
By Suzy Khimm, Esquire (April 9, 2017)
King of Boise: The Life and Times of a Teenage Oxycodone Dealer
By Joe Eaton, Pacific Standard (November 21, 2017)
Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu
By Michael LaPointe, The Atlantic (June 2018)
The Rise of the Victim's Rights Movement
By Jill Lepore, The New Yorker (May 21, 2018)
"I Killed Them All." The Life of One of America's Bloodiest Hitmen
by Jessica Garrison, BuzzFeed News (May 17, 2018)
The FBI of the National Park Service
by Rachel Monroe, Outside (October 16, 2018)
It Started as an Online Gaming Prank. Then it Turned Deadly
By Brendan Koerner, Wired (October 23, 2018)
'If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are The Right Guys'
By Mara Hvistendahl, Wired (April 25, 2019)
The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This
By Lauren Smiley, The Atlantic (November 1, 2019)
Where are Ohio's Anti-Heroin Vigilantes Helping?
By Zachary Schwartz, Rolling Stone (September 17, 2019)
A Violent Defense
By Elizabeth Flock, The New Yorker (January 20, 2020)
Guilty by Harold J. Rothwax
By Walter Olson, Commentary Magazine (May 1996)
A Record Exec's Crusade for Justice
By Alex Morris, Rolling Stone (January 7, 2020)

Supreme Court Sentences

Elonis v. U.S. (2015) 135 S.Ct. 2001
Brief for Elonis by John P. Elwood, Counsel of Record
Elonis v. U.S. (2015) 135 S.Ct. 2001
Brief for the United States by Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General, Counsel of Record
Brief for the United States
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General, Counsel of Record in No. 13-7451 in the Supreme Court of the United States (Yates v. United States)
Brief of Petitioner
John L. Badalamenti, Counsel of Record in No. 13-7451 in the Supreme Court of the United States (Yates v. United States)

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