Instead, they arrested and charged only one person, Askins, who had a criminal record of nonviolent drug offenses.
His file showed that he had depression, anxiety and PTSD from being raped by a neighbor when he was 9.
Mai left private practice and took a 40 percent pay cut to become a public defender in his home state because he wanted to work cases like this.
He had imagined himself fighting for the underdog, standing and delivering in front of a jury like his idol, Clarence Darrow, whose trial victories helped advance the civil rights movement.
In his almost two years as a public defender, he had never once taken a case to trial.
Persons:
Greg Abbott, “, Marco Rubio, Mai, Suge ”, Drake, Askins, he’d, Clarence Darrow
Organizations:
Gov, Prosecutors, Republican, Oklahoma City
Locations:
Oklahoma, Texas, ”, Arkansas, Alaska , California, Florida, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, dumpsters