article_snippet.sent: And incredulous that it took so long.
article_snippet.sent: All they had to do was to test the gun, but when you think you're high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody," Anthony Ray Hinton told reporters.
article_snippet.sent: But a new trial was ordered in 2014 after firearms experts testified 12 years earlier that the revolver Anthony Ray Hinton was said to have used in the crimes could not be matched to evidence in either case, and the two killings couldn't be linked to each other. "
article_snippet.sent: Race, poverty, inadequate legal assistance, and prosecutorial indifference to innocence conspired to create a textbook example of injustice," Bryan Stevenson, the group's executive director and Anthony Ray Hinton's lead attorney, said of innocence African-American client.
article_snippet.sent: I can't think of a case that more urgently dramatizes the need for reform than what has happened to Anthony Ray Hinton.
article_snippet.sent: Stevenson said the "refusal of state prosecutors to re-examine a case that more urgently dramatizes the need for reform than what has happened to Anthony Ray Hinton despite persuasive and reliable evidence of innocence is disappointing and troubling.
highlights_snippet.sent: Court ordered new trial in 2014, years after gun experts testified on Anthony Ray Hinton behalf .
  