article_snippet.sent: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that Hinton had inadequate counsel and sent the case back for a second trial.
article_snippet.sent: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that Hinton had 'constitutionally deficient' representation at a second trial.
article_snippet.sent: Hinton's defense lawyer wrongly thought Hinton's defense lawyer had only $1,000 to hire a ballistics expert to try to rebut the prosecution testimony about the bullets.
article_snippet.sent: Hinton's defense lawyer hired the only person willing to take the job at that price, even though Hinton's defense lawyer had concerns about the expert's credentials.
article_snippet.sent: Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, said Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative pressed the state for years to re-test the gun, and for years officials refused.
article_snippet.sent: Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative said the case was emblematic of problems with the justice system.
article_snippet.sent: Bryan Stevenson has said Hinton was convicted based on bad science because Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative didn't have the money to prove Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative innocence at trial. '
article_snippet.sent: Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative was convicted because Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative was poor,' Stevenson, who first took on the case 16 years ago, said Friday.
article_snippet.sent: This week, prosecutors announced prosecutors did not have enough evidence to re-try Bryan Stevenson, Hinton's attorney and director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative for two 1985 murders .
article_snippet.sent: Hinton's lawyer says Hinton's lawyer was convicted because Hinton's lawyer was a poor man in Alabama and did not have the resources to defend Hinton's lawyer .