If you passed me on the street, you wouldn’t assume I was an ex-convict. In fact, once people get to know me, and find out I spent almost six years in prison, they are shocked.
The law is clear: Every person charged with a crime in America has the right to effective counsel, but for two, Wyandotte County men, this unequivocal right rang hollow.
Near the end of the book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, author and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson encounters a woman he had often noticed sitting in the courtroom.