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Byron Hadley
The district attorney (DA) serves as prosecutor in Andy Dufresne’s trial after Andy is falsely accused of murdering his wife Linda and her lover Glenn Quentin. The DA has ambitions to become a congressman and thinks that successfully convicting Andy will boost his electoral chances. Though only circumstantial evidence connects Andy to the crime, the DA tells a convincing story about Andy as a calculating, emotionless killer, persuading the jury of Andy’s guilt and condemning Andy to decades in Shawshank prison. By securing Andy’s conviction through persuasive storytelling, the DA demonstrates the power of stories to influence reality. By sacrificing Andy to his political ambitions, meanwhile, the DA betrays the corruption and injustice of the U.S. justice system.
The District Attorney Quotes in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
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Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
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It was that last fact that militated more against Andy than any of the others. The DA with the political aspirations made a great deal of it in his opening statement and his closing summation. Andrew Dufresne, he said, was not a wronged husband seeking a hot-blooded revenge against his cheating wife; that, the DA said, could be understood, if not condoned. But this revenge had been of a much colder type. Consider! the DA thundered at the jury. Four and four! Not six shots, but eight! He had fired the gun empty . . . and then stopped to reload so he could shoot each of them again!
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The District Attorney Quotes in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
The Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption quotes below are all either spoken by The District Attorney or refer to The District Attorney. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
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It was that last fact that militated more against Andy than any of the others. The DA with the political aspirations made a great deal of it in his opening statement and his closing summation. Andrew Dufresne, he said, was not a wronged husband seeking a hot-blooded revenge against his cheating wife; that, the DA said, could be understood, if not condoned. But this revenge had been of a much colder type. Consider! the DA thundered at the jury. Four and four! Not six shots, but eight! He had fired the gun empty . . . and then stopped to reload so he could shoot each of them again!
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