I like Wanda's approach to the example sentence about the confessed
murderer. I was thinking along the same lines. The revised sentences she
proposes are much stronger, even though they sacrifice the oomph lent by
'none other than'. Which might be rather stuffy-sounding oomph, after all.
Of all people, lawyers should be encouraged to avoid stuffiness whenever
possible. It would make their prose much more accessible to non-lawyers.
 
Johanna
 
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Johanna Rubba   Assistant Professor, Linguistics              ~
English Department, California Polytechnic State University   ~
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407                                     ~
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