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Quinn Cozzens, a lawyer for Lee with the Abolitionist Law Center, said he believes if the high court sides with Lee, that could apply to all others convicted of second-degree murder.

“The only issue that we’re appealing from trial is the sentence itself, so not the conviction,” Cozzens said.

Local groups have held discussions and worship activities in preparation for the event, which will be preceded by three multi-state pilgrimages converging on Indianapolis from different routes, said Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, who chairs the bishops’ advisory group to the gathering.

As has come to be expected from Cozzens’s work, “A Brutal Reckoning” masterfully blends important cultural and biographical details with expressive and engaging military history.

Cozzens’s retelling of the Creek War is as garish as it is gruesome, especially when it comes to events such as the Fort Mims massacre and Battle of Horseshoe Bend.