The Fabulous Fabulist Lawyer Who Wasn’t, but Still Managed to Get a Man Off Death Row
Source: Smithsonian
Eddie Harrison was in deep trouble. It was 1960, and he was an 18-year-old Black man accused of killing a loan shark in Washington, D.C., where a first-degree murder conviction would send him to the electric chair. The only person fighting for his life was an eccentric public defender named L.A. Harris. The 49-year-old lawyer was known as a hard fighter who saved clients from death row using legal gymnastics and…
This is aggregated or syndicated coverage. Reporting and media belong to the original publisher.
Read the original source at Smithsonian