case where a black man was accused of murdering two white people in the deep south was marked but uncomfortable echoes of the racial attitudes you'd find in "to kill a mockingbird," a contributing editor to the "atlantic" wrote that black jurors were dismissed because they regularly read jet and ebony magazine. a black juror who read those same magazines was struck. in addition to this, a jailhouse informant at the trial who told jurors that manning confessed to shooting both victims has since recanted testimony telling defense lawyers he thought he would get consideration from prosecutors for incriminating manning. fingerprints found in the victim's car did not match mannings or the victims and have never been checked against government data bases. the case against willie jerome manning deserves a closer examination. not just for his sake, but for the victim's families and the public at large. against the wishes of the governor and attorney general, gave us all a chance to see that everyone involved in this case gets that.