Ridley received $10 and 10 weeks to build a defense alone, pitted against a team of 15 prosecution investigators. This week, in the same courthouse where the ruling was passed down 91 years earlier, Ridley’s great-grandson, Sam Lemon, finally won justice for Williams. A photo of Williams with the district attorney following his confessions appears to show the teenager with a black eye. “It just sounds like a domestic violence case.”Lemon, an administrator at a local university, said he first learned of the Williams case from his grandmother — Ridley’s daughter — when he was a child. clarification An earlier version of this story included a quote from attorney Robert Keller that he later clarified.

Source: Washington Post June 19, 2022 18:29 UTC