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When I met Trina, Ian, and Antonio years later, they had each been broken by years of hopeless confinement. They were legally co ...

amount of photos. As you know, I’ve been in solitary confinement approx. 14. 5 years. It’s like the system has buried me alive a ...

Chapter Nine I’m Here Finally, the date for Walter McMillian’s hearing had arrived. We would now have an opportunity to present ...

had several pretrial hearings on different motions during which he would sometimes become frustrated because of the bickering be ...

before the hearing. The five-hour trip through the nighttime roads of southern Alabama had clearly unnerved Ralph. We met with h ...

The judge jumped in with, “Well, it does sound like you’re trying to retry the case, Mr. Stevenson, so I’m going to allow the St ...

courtroom became quiet. Judge Norton was looking at Myers attentively. I walked over to begin my examination. After asking him t ...

suggestion that someone was putting him up to this, Ralph became indignant. He looked at the prosecutor and said: Me, I can simp ...

to Walter McMillian. It seemed that Judge Norton had not expected that. When Clay Kast acknowledged that the truck the state wit ...

“You can’t come in.” “What do you mean I can’t come in? There is a hearing scheduled and I want to go inside.” “I’m sorry, sir, ...

then pulled out a long blue scarf that she delicately wrapped around her neck. Only then did she slowly begin to make her way to ...

Taylor Hardin explained that Myers had told him that “his prior ‘confessions’ are bogus and were coerced out of him by the polic ...

distant look. “When I saw that dog, I thought about 1965 , when we gathered at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and tried to ma ...

in. Everyone rose, as is the custom. When the judge took the bench and sat down, everyone else in the courtroom sat down as well ...

should make. We had hoped for this, and I was relieved that the court would give us time to explain the significance of all the ...

about Mrs. Williams. She had come up to me after the hearings and had given me a sweet kiss on the cheek. I told her how happy I ...

Chapter Ten Mitigation America’s prisons have become warehouses for the mentally ill. Mass incarceration has been largely fueled ...

fueled a new campaign, this time to get people out of institutional mental health settings. In the 1960 s and 1970 s, laws were ...

I once represented a mentally ill man on Alabama’s death row named George Daniel. George had suffered brain damage in a car acci ...

lawyers to obtain the unclaimed check in the hope that they could present it at the trial to confirm George’s confused mental st ...