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What is the meaning of" cynical charade" and "the deck is stacked" and"leery of juries" in the following text?
At the moment he believed that the entire courtroom performance had been a cynical charade. Later he realized that wasn't wholly true. The woman had suffered a terrible loss, and perhaps her laughter in the hallway had been simply a release of tension. But the experience had left Cheeseman disdainful of the tactics of personal injury lawyers and leery of juries."Everyone understands that the deck is stacked," Cheeseman observed many years later.
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anonymous cynical charade dishonest play-acting anonymous the deck is stacked The cards are arranged to give a unfair advantage to one player. anonymous leery of juries distrustful of the people who decide guilt or innocence CJ
- anonymous cynical charade dishonest play-acting anonymous the deck is stacked The cards are arranged to give a unfair advantage to one player.
- anonymous leery of juries distrustful of the people who decide guilt or innocence CJ
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anonymouscynical charade
dishonest play-acting
anonymousthe deck is stacked
The cards are arranged to give a unfair advantage to one player.
anonymousleery of juries
distrustful of the people who decide guilt or innocence
CJ
0a cynical charade a pretense that was a mockery of decent justice and ethics
the deck is stacked Imagine you and I are playing cards. A set of 52 cards is called a deck. I arrange the deck so that I always get better cards than you. You think the game is fair, but it is not. I have stecked the deck. Figuratively, Cheeseman is saying that what happened in the courtroo
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