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peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized. My grandmother’s parents were deeply embittered by how the promi ...

“I’m here for a legal visit,” I replied. “It was scheduled earlier this week. The people in the warden’s office have the papers. ...

I spoke cautiously. “Yes, I saw that truck.” His face hardened before he spoke. “I want you to know, that’s my truck.” He releas ...

seizures and experiencing psychotic episodes. At seventeen, he was deemed incapable of management and was left homeless. Avery w ...

assistance when it comes to the physically disabled, but because mental disabilities aren’t visible in the same way, we tend to ...

He reached into his pocket to pull out a handkerchief to wipe the perspiration that had formed on his brow. I noticed for the fi ...

Chapter Eleven I’ll Fly Away It was the third bomb threat in two months. As we quickly cleared the office and waited for the pol ...

McMillian case. Leading up to the hearing, Michael and I had been followed several times while doing investigative work in Monro ...

that Ralph Meyers perjured himself at the original trial and this court having determined that there is insufficient evidence to ...

to Montgomery and were intrigued by life in Alabama. Bernard’s quick immersion in the McMillian case intensified his cultural ad ...

about the inability of people in the local community to get a fair picture of what was going on. Aside from the hostility we fea ...

We filed our appeal in the Court of Criminal Appeals that summer. With no small amount of lingering uncertainty, I decided to mo ...

clarification of a particular point in the case that had been the subject of serious debate in a barbershop or at a social gathe ...

extremely grateful that you’ve looked at the evidence in this case thoroughly and honestly.” “Well, confirming that McMillian ha ...

innocent and he would help us prove it. Eventually, after several calls and hours of conversation, he claimed to know where the ...

with the attorney general or whatever official had final decision-making authority, and he said that he would see what he could ...

death sentence. The court didn’t conclude that he was innocent and must be released, but it ruled in our favor on every other cl ...

motion or at least not oppose it. He sighed. “We should talk when this is all over. Once you file your motion, I’ll get back to ...

done, I’d like to shake his hand,” he told me. “Would that be all right?” “I think he’d appreciate that.” “This case has taught ...

much too hard to win his freedom after proving his innocence. We have serious problems and important work that must be done in t ...