Eddie Harrison was in deep trouble. It was 1960, and he was an 18-year-old Black man accused of killing a loan shark in Washington, D.C., where a first-degree murder conviction would send him to the electric chair. The only person fighting for his life was an eccentric public defender named L.A. Harris. The 49-year-old lawyer was known as a hard fighter who saved clients from death row using legal gymnastics and courtroom histrionics.
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