Ghost of the Innocent Man by Benjamin Rachlin

Author:Benjamin Rachlin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

In 1997 his sister Gladys found a lawyer out of Greensboro, who agreed to look over Willie’s case for a fee of $1,400. So she paid him and forwarded her brother’s transcript, which the lawyer read before agreeing to take on the case for another $2,800. Again she paid. Now every time she called she got his receptionist, who told her the lawyer couldn’t discuss the case with anyone but Willie, since Willie was his client. From her brother’s letters, however, Gladys knew the lawyer wasn’t discussing the case with him, either. For months the two of them waited, into the new year. Then Gladys got a letter from the firm with news that the lawyer had been disbarred. Another partner in his office was willing to take on Willie’s case, for a new fee. Gladys refused. The lawyer hadn’t accomplished a thing, so she wasn’t about to pay some partner of his simply so he wouldn’t accomplish a thing, either. More than four thousand dollars was gone, and her brother was back to where he’d started.

In fact, this wasn’t quite true. Before the lawyer was disbarred, he’d filed a motion for appropriate relief on Willie’s behalf, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel. He simply had never told Willie or Gladys about the filing. This oversight turned out not to matter. In July 1998, the MAR was denied.

Willie had spent a decade in prison.

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