Assignment Help Online: How did the prosecution use Willingham’s refusal to accept a plea to a life sentence against him?
What key element of the crime was missing from the beginning?
2) What is your reaction to defense attorney David Martin’s comment to the reporter: “Everyone thinks defense lawyers must believe their clients are innocent but that’s seldom true. Most of the time, they’re guilty as sin.”
3) How did the prosecution use Willingham’s refusal to accept a plea to a life sentence against him? Is there another way one could interpret his refusal?
4) What evidence did the defense produce at trial to refute the state’s claim of homicide?
5) What does the author mean when he says that Willingham “had trouble separating the mores in prison from those of the outside world?”