Convicting Mr Wright Case Summary

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One way anyone with a criminal justice background to consider convicting Mrs. Wright is the fact she was acting abnormally calm and stagnant in the beginning, that is before she does as Mr. Hale explained as ‘some sort of laugh’ before informing him of Mr. Wright’s death; although, one might interpret her conflicting emotions to be out of pure shock over the death of her husband. Then there is the fact that after they head upstairs, and it explains that Mr. Wright had died with a rope around his neck, although had he been hanging from the ceiling this one might assume the chance he had committed suicide; however, since he was lying down when the rope was around his neck as addition, this fact he was on his back, expresses emotional connection

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