The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.
PrologueTwo years into his 25-year sentence for attempted aggravated rape, Nathan Brown could tell the man sitting across from him a jailhouse lawyer improbably named Lawyer Winfield was not going to help him get out of prison. It was astounding to Brown that he was pinning his hopes on a fellow.
The statewide tour involved 1,000 three-day inaugural Scholarship First Bus Tour which took the president and special guests on a winding route around Louisiana.
The theme sets the scene for Cotillion royals led by King LXXIV Dr. Stephen Collier and Her Royal Majesty LXXIV Queen Mary Cecile Hancock, setting sail on a royal holiday.