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The case of Oscar Slater.(law and literature)

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From: LawNow
Date: 20060601
Author:Normey, Robert

Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, played the role of detective many times in his life. He was passionately devoted to bringing wrongful convictions to light Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and overturning them. He worked tirelessly for the pardon of George Edjali, as I mentioned in a previous column.

In 1912, Conan Doyle learned of the case of Oscar Slater, who was serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of an 82-year-old lady in Glasgow in 1908. Conan Doyle read the lawyer William Roughead's book The Trial of Oscar Slater, which persuaded him to take up ...

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