A Character Analysis: Doug Jones

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Doug Jones is the person who can make all of the people of Alabama proud. He has proven that he is a good man-- when he helped convict Bobby Frank Cherry in the 16th St Baptist Church bombing--when he worked to convict Eric Rudolph for the Birmingham Bombing in 1998. As a direct result of work by Doug Jones, those convictions show that Alabama should not be known as a center of bigotry and

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