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We ban poor women and, inevitably, their children from receiving food stamps and public housing if they have prior drug convictions.†

p. 16.1

Some states permanently strip people with criminal convictions of the right to vote; as a result, in several Southern states disenfranchisement among African American men has reached levels unseen since before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.†

p. 16.2

In this book you will learn the story of Walter's case, which taught me about our system's disturbing indifference to inaccurate or unreliable verdicts, our comfort with bias, and our tolerance of unfair prosecutions and convictions.†

p. 17.2

John Tompkins, a lawyer and part of a small minority of white professionals who considered the racial integrity laws to be unconstitutional, agreed to represent Tony and Mary to appeal their convictions.†

p. 28.5

With rhetoric that would be quoted frequently over the next several decades, Alabama's highest court affirmed the convictions, using language that dripped with contempt for the idea of interracial romance: The evil tendency of the crime [of adultery or fornication] is greater when committed between persons of the two races....Its result may be the amalgamation of the two races, producing a mongrel population and a degraded civilization, the prevention of which is dictated by a sound policy affecting the highest interests of society and government.†

p. 28.6

Your Honor, the State's case against Walter McMillian turned entirely on the testimony of Ralph Myers, who had several prior felony convictions and another capital murder case pending against him in Escambia County at the time of Mr. McMillian's trial.†

p. 168.1

Many judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers do a poor job of recognizing the special needs of the mentally disabled, which leads to wrongful convictions, lengthier prison terms, and high rates of recidivism.†

p. 189.2

But there are likely hundreds of other people imprisoned after an evaluation by "Dr. Seger" whose convictions have never been reviewed.†

p. 191.9

In hundreds of other cases, falsely accused women never received the forensic help they needed to avoid wrongful convictions.†

p. 234.1 *

In 1996, Congress passed welfare reform legislation that gratuitously included a provision that authorized states to ban people with drug convictions from public benefits and welfare.†

p. 237.2

By the late 1990s, the evolution of DNA evidence had helped expose dozens of wrongful convictions.†

p. 249.1

He had been adjudicated as a juvenile delinquent when he was seventeen, for multiple convictions for arson, theft, aggravated assault, gun violence, and, finally, assaulting a police officer.†

p. 271.6

Wrongful convictions and illegal trials involving young children are very common.†

p. 296.4

I argued two cases at the Mississippi Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the convictions and sentences of young children were illegal.†

p. 296.6

Henry sang slowly and with great sincerity and conviction.†

p. 12.1

Years earlier, he had been drawn into a bar fight that resulted in a misdemeanor conviction and a night in jail.†

p. 26.8

Alabama courts had almost never reversed a conviction because the trial judge had refused to change venue.†

p. 61.7

After striking all of the black prospective jurors in a county that is 28 percent black, the prosecutor told the all-white jury in his closing argument that a conviction was appropriate because Herbert was "associated with Black Muslims from New York City" and deserved no mercy.†

p. 77.2

Following the imposition of the death sentence, Herbert's appointed lawyer, who was later disbarred for poor performance in other cases, told Herbert that he didn't see any reason to appeal the conviction or sentence because the trial had been as fair as he could expect.†

p. 77.8

They were so deeply disturbed by Walter's conviction that they, too, had come over when they heard that I was coming.†

p. 100.4

Walter's family and most poor black people in his community were similarly burdened by Walter's conviction.†

p. 101.8

My plan had been to immediately appeal Walter's conviction to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.†

p. 106.7

The State had done so little to prove Walter's guilt that there weren't a lot of legal issues to appeal, but the evidence against him was so unpersuasive that I was hopeful the court might overturn the conviction simply because it was so unreliable.†

p. 106.8

I took the risk of talking to a few local lawyers about whether the new prosecutor might acknowledge that the conviction was unreliable and support a new trial if there was compelling new evidence.†

p. 107.4

I've read the record, and to be honest I have serious doubts about his guilt and the reliability of this conviction.†

p. 109.9

There is evidence that implicates Walter McMillian for this murder, and my job is to defend this conviction.†

p. 110.9

"Without Hooks's testimony, the conviction wouldn't be valid," I said, leveling my voice.†

p. 112.1

But talking face-to-face with someone about the case made the irrational thinking swirling around Walter's conviction much, much harder to accept.†

p. 112.8

Arresting someone for coming forward with credible evidence that challenged the reliability of a capital murder conviction?†

p. 114.5

The seventy-page opinion from the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirming his conviction and death sentence was devastating.†

p. 127.1

I hoped they saw so little support for the conviction that they didn't think there was much to discuss.†

p. 128.9

Following the oral argument, I still had hope that the court would overturn the conviction and sentence because it was so clearly unsupported by reliable facts.†

p. 129.5

I believed that the court would have a hard time affirming a conviction with so little evidence.†

p. 129.6

I had tried to prepare him for the possibility that it could take years to get his conviction overturned, but he had gotten his hopes up.†

p. 129.7

They are the vehicle to challenge a conviction based on ineffective counsel, the State's failure to disclose evidence, and most important, new evidence of innocence.†

p. 143.6

The initial confirmation of Walter's conviction on appeal had generated significant press in the community, and most people now felt that Walter's guilt was a settled matter.†

p. 143.8

After communicating with Ian for several years, Baigre wrote the court and told the judge who sentenced Ian of her conviction that his sentence was too harsh and that his conditions of confinement were inhumane.†

p. 153.6

Chapman had called in the state attorney general's office to help defend Walter's conviction, and they'd sent Assistant Attorney General Don Valeska, a longtime prosecutor with a reputation for being intense and combative.†

p. 164.1

We eventually won a favorable ruling from a federal judge who overturned his conviction and sentence.†

p. 191.8

We began discussing the idea of reaching out to a few people who might help us publicly dramatize the injustice of Mr. McMillian's wrongful conviction as a way of setting the stage for his possible release.†

p. 208.6

But I did think getting a more informed view of Walter's conviction and the murder would make his life after release less dangerous—assuming we could ever get his conviction overturned.†

p. 209.7

But I did think getting a more informed view of Walter's conviction and the murder would make his life after release less dangerous—assuming we could ever get his conviction overturned.†

p. 209.7

The local press in Monroe County and Mobile had demonized Walter and had defiantly maintained that his conviction was reliable and his execution necessary Local papers had painted Walter as a dangerous drug dealer who had possibly murdered several innocent teenagers.†

p. 209.9

The Mobile Press Register headline was "DA: TV Account of McMillian's Conviction a 'Disgrace' "; the article quoted Chapman: "For them to hold themselves up as a reputable news show is beyond belief, and irresponsible."†

p. 212.6

They had been whispering about Walter's wrongful conviction for years.†

p. 213.2

Given our success in other death penalty cases, he must have feared the very real possibility of the appellate court's overturning Walter's conviction.†

p. 213.8

Chapman had become the public face defending the conviction, and he realized that he'd put his own credibility on the line by relying on the work of local investigators—work that was now revealed as almost farcically flawed.†

p. 213.8

The ruling invalidated Walter's conviction and death sentence.†

p. 220.2

For the first time I fully reckoned with the truth that the conviction, the death sentence, and the heartbreak and devastation of this miscarriage of justice had created permanent injuries.†

p. 222.8

This concession yielded an immediate conviction.†

p. 235.6

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