![]() ![]() Hinton eventually finds a sense of home and family, and even starts a book club.Īs he balances the weight of hope and imagination, picturing marriages and sports championships, and dealing with the loss of his mother-and the deaths, by execution, of his fellow inmates-he finally finds what he calls “God’s Best Lawyer” in Bryan Stevenson. He befriends his fellow death row inmates, most of whom, he supposes, are guilty, and all of whom have been convicted for violent crimes-including a KKK member who lynched a young black man. He loses faith and hope-both of which are eventually regained from reflection and Hinton's openness to experience. Legal defenses come and go, with underfunded lawyers always asking for money. In an odyssey of irony and imagination, Hinton spends three decades entangled in the legal system. The weapon found in his mother’s home doesn’t match the one used in the crimes. ![]() He is innocent: His alibis and successful passing of a polygraph test confirm this. He is found guilty but shrugs off the verdict: He is certain that he will quickly be exonerated. ![]() ![]() As a young black man in the South, he doubts the criminal justice system's true efficacy, but was told by his mother that if he just tells the truth, everything will always be okay. In Hinton’s widely read memoir, he recounts the circumstances leading to his arrest for capital murder. ![]()
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