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As he walked to the car, Walter raised his arms and gently moved them up and down as if he meant to take flight. He looked at me ...

Chapter Twelve Mother, Mother On a cool, crisp mid-March evening, Marsha Colbey stepped out onto the streets of New York City in ...

plenty of other families shared their situation, which offered some consolation. But when Ivan destroyed the Colbey home in Sept ...

Debbie Cook noticed that Marsha Colbey was no longer pregnant but did not have a baby, which stirred her interest in the details ...

inflammatory evidence that Marsha was poor, a prior drug user, and obviously a bad mother for not seeking prenatal care. Police ...

with capital murder, six additional pathologists examined the body and unanimously concluded that neonatal pneumonia had killed ...

The jury returned a verdict of guilty on one count of capital murder. Prior to rendering a verdict, jurors expressed concerns ab ...

food stamps, or access basic services. In the last twenty years, we’ve created a new class of “untouchables” in American society ...

“Well, don’t try to smuggle notes. They can write us.” “Well, some say they have written.” “We’re swamped, Diane. I’m sorry, but ...

for EJI. We usually honored a luminary in public service and a client. We’d previously honored Marian Wright Edelman, the heroic ...

Chapter Thirteen Recovery Events in the days and weeks following Walter’s release were completely unexpected. The New York Times ...

didn’t much like speaking in public. Politicians would sometimes say provocative things— such as that his exoneration just prove ...

Oklahoma and Illinois limit the total amount an innocent person can recover to under $ 200 , 000 , even if the person has spent ...

egregious misconduct that results in innocent people being sent to death row. In 2011 , the U.S. Supreme Court again reinforced ...

I marveled at how he seemed to take it in stride. “I’ll figure out something else to do when I get back on my feet,” he told me. ...

resource centers around the country were forced to close. We had never received state support for our work, and without the fede ...

unusually kind to me. I was surprised at how gratifying I found their enthusiasm for our work. Most everyone I met offered suppo ...

into warm chords—the sound was transcendent. The singing built gloriously with each line. Standing on a stage above the singers ...

Chapter Fourteen Cruel and Unusual On the morning of May 4 , 1989 , Michael Gulley, fifteen, and Nathan McCants, seventeen, conv ...

The only physical evidence to implicate Joe was a latent partial palm-print that the state’s examiner testified matched him. Thi ...