Willie Leaphart was tried on a charge of raping a white woman just 25 years after the end of slavery. His judge, William Wallace, is a former Confederate general. There are warnings he may be lynched. George Graham is reluctantly appointed to be his attorney, but it does not go well.

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Bristow Marchant is the reporter on this podcast. It is a a production of The State and McClatchy, and produced by Loumay Alesali, Jennifer Molina, Kata Stevens, Hrisanthi Pickett and Joshua Boucher. Special thanks to Don Blount, Sarah Ellis, David Travis Bland and Jeff Wilkinson.

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