... defended by Jake. While Carl Lee has to remain in custody without any possibilitiy to be released on bail, his brother had a bond of 50.000 dollars for killing Monroe Bowie, another Black. The narration of these differences motivated by race is once again devoid of any criticism, but the interesting thing about this part is that the narrator explains Lesters ... thoughts on the case, who virtually thinks of it as a god-given fact, the same way everybody else does. "Of course, Bowie was black, and bonds were generally lower for those cases." (Grisham: 102) A similar kind of comparison ha...

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... "). In this case, the Board of Education needed to lay off one teacher from the high school business faculty. The choice was narrowed down to Debra Williams, a black woman, or Sharon Taxman, who is white. Both teachers had begun working on the same day in 1980 and were considered equal in ability. The two were also judged equal with respect to ... ...

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