He was also the judge who presided over Stevenson's early attempts to overturn the conviction. Lee Key converted it to a death sentence. The main narrative thread of his memoir is his efforts to free Walter McMillian, a black man convicted of the murder of a white woman. Stevenson, eschewing the big money that was waiting for him, began his legal career at a legal aid non-profit in Georgia, then shifted to Montgomery, Alabama, where he founded the Equal Justice Initiative. The exoneration, through DNA evidence, of men sentenced to death has alerted us all to the flaws-which turn out to infect our system at every level: misconduct by police, defense attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, and judges. Author Bryan Stevenson, graduate of a small Christian college and of Harvard Law School, has devoted his life to victims of some of the gaping flaws in our justice system. This compelling memoir, published in 2014, is a searing look at our system of justice.
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