0812994523.pdf

Chapter Seven Justice Denied Walter’s appeal was denied. The seventy-page opinion from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals aff ...

blocked civil rights boycotts and protests in Tuskegee and Montgomery. As governor, he withheld law enforcement protection for t ...

come up with so much new evidence to prove Walter’s innocence, I think the court’s ruling would have been even more overwhelming ...

to speak to this man, but they had failed to do so. After Walter described the location of the store, we were able to track him ...

of Darnell Houston, the new evidence about the condition of Walter’s truck, and the discovery of the assistance given Hooks by l ...

too eager or too surprised—too anything—he might retreat. “It was all a lie. What I’m going to tell you is going to blow your mi ...

to us a widespread conspiracy involving police, drug dealing, and money laundering. It was quite a tale. We spent weeks followin ...

might give us some perspective on the coercion that was leveled against Myers. We now knew that because Myers had recanted his a ...

responsiveness to the perspective of crime victims and their families. The problem was that not all crime victims received the s ...

victim. A new formula emerged for criminal prosecution, especially in high-profile cases, in which the emotions, perspectives, a ...

new Monroe County judges seemed to want to touch our petition, so it was transferred back to Baldwin County under the theory tha ...

“We don’t need to do anything that formal, Bryan. These men are officers of the court, just like you and I. You should just take ...

Chapter Eight All God’s Children UNCRIED TEARS Imagine teardrops left uncried From pain trapped inside Waiting to escape Through ...

percent of the city’s children were living below the federal poverty level. Trina’s father, Walter Garnett, was a former boxer w ...

incompetent to stand trial. Defendants who are deemed incompetent can’t be tried in adversarial criminal proceedings—meaning tha ...

nearly five hundred people in Pennsylvania who have been condemned to mandatory life imprisonment without parole for crimes they ...

before the crime took place. He’d been left to wander the streets with little parental or family support. In solitary, he met fe ...

Angeles because he was on probation following his adjudication as a ward of the court for a prior offense. In poor urban neighbo ...

attempted murder in Florida serve less than ten years in prison. Gun violence with no reported injuries frequently result in sen ...

Despite appeals from the NAACP and black clergy, who asked that the sentence be converted to life imprisonment, Governor Olin Jo ...