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…showed last 75 words of 1141 total…sentence up and he was framed as a murder. The Lieutenant was pushing the downward law as far down as it could go. In effect, he took the law into his own hands, with his own prejudices and declared to defend the white majority from the blacks. Carter had no voice in his convictions; the Lieutenant had the power to deny Carter anything he chose, even life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**