Mary is a wonderful black woman who, as a teenager visiting a small town, was falsely accused of murder and defended by an assigned lawyer whom she first met on the day of the trial, when he advised her to plead guilty, promising a light sentence. She got life imprisonment instead ... A reexamination of the evidence and trial proceedings by the original judge revealed that she was completely innocent, and she was granted a pardon.

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^ Crawford, Clare (March 14, 1977). "A Story of Love and Rehabilitation: the Ex-Con in the White House". People. Archived from the original on June 23, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2015.

^ Barnes, Dustin (October 19, 2019). "'Still going strong': Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter become longest-married presidential couple". USA Today. 